Video Transcript for Review of TowSmart Trailer Hitch Ball Mount - Fixed Ball Mount - TS59VR

Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today I'm gonna take a look at the TowSmart BAJA Collection ball mount with the two inch hitch ball for two inch hitches. Offers a two inch drop and a 3/4 inch rise, and has a 5,000 pound gross towing weight capacity. Now, this ball mount will let you hook your trailer to your tow vehicle. The shank portion back here is what'll slide into your vehicle's two inch hitch receiver, and it'll secure into the receiver using the included pin and clip. Hitch pin diameter is 5/8 of an inch.

So you'll slide this in your hitch receiver, line up your holes, slide the pin all the way through, and then clip it to secure it in place. Now, we do also offer hitch locks, which will offer extra security if you want secure it so nobody can remove it. You can put a hitch lock through there. We do sell those separately. Now the hitch ball right here, this is what'll provide the connection point for your trailer's coupler.

The diameter on this ball is two inches. Also, what's nice on this, if you look, the ball mount is designed with the unique X-shaped shank so that the water can drain out of your receiver while it's installed, preventing this ball mount from seizing up in your hitch receiver. Now, they do offer both drop and rise positions. These are available to ensure level towing. The maximum drop would be this position, which would be two inches.

That's measured from the top here to the bottom. If you want it in the rise, you would flip it over this way, and you would have to break the nut loose and reverse the ball so it's in the rise position, and the 3/4 inch measurement is from here to the top of the ball platform. Now, a nice feature they use on this is called a lock rail system. And what that does is that'll let you break this nut loose and if you need to reverse the ball, there's lock rails, let me just zoom in even closer, you'll notice they're ridges that run all the way up here, and then if you flip it over in the rise position, they have the ridges here too. So if you break this nut loose and you flip the ball over, when you put it in there, those ridges will hold these lock flats on the hitch ball in position so you don't have to have a wrench on it, and then you can torque your nut down to specifications.

So those lock rails will help you torque that hitch ball down with a single wrench. Now, this is a durable steel, has a black matte finish to resist rust and corrosion. Few specs again, this fits a two inch by two inch trailer hitch receiver. Gross towing weight capacity is 5,000 pounds. Tongue weight capacity is 500 pounds. And the last thing we wanna do is just give you the length. And a ball mount, when they say the length of a ball mount, that's the measurement from the center of the hitch pin hole to the center of the ball. So if we take a ruler and we go center to center, measure 8 1/2 inch measurement. But that should do it for a look at this TowSmart BAJA Collection ball mount with a two inch hitch ball for two inch hitches.