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Hey guys, Kevin here, at etrailer, and today I'll be showing you how to install, the Curt, adjustable trailer hitch receiver. Here on our 2016 Keystone Hideout travel trailer. So, one of the most important steps in choosing the correct, adjustable trailer hitch receiver for your trailer, is to measure from one frame beam over to the next one. And you're gonna wanna measure from the inside to the inside if you have an I-beam trailer. So with ours today if I measure across, I'm gonna end up getting, roughly, 68 and a half inches, from the inner beam to inner beam. So I can go ahead, and I can take that and go back to our fit guide, and find the correct size adjustable trailer hitch.

All right, just to give you a bit of an idea, with some measurements here, of where this is gonna end up sitting. So if you measured from the top of your I-beam bracket, down, the center of the receiver is gonna be about four inches down. So you can take that and get a rough estimate. From there if you came out, so, from the backside of our receiver tube to, all the way to that front lip, it's right about 11 inches. And also from the center of our hitch pin hole to the edge, the inner edge right here before that lip, it's two inches and with that lip it's about two and a half, roughly.

So you can kind of guess exactly what you're gonna be able to fit in here because a lot of times the actual trailer body kind of overhangs a little bit more than what the I-beams really go down to. So you may have some issues if you're trying to stick a cargo carrier or a bike rack on there if you we're wanting to actually flip it up to. So if you had a longer shank on that accessory you would be able to probably get it up in there, and kind of fold it up. This hitch comes with a nice high-gloss black powder coating to prevent rust scratches, any kinda corrosion that you'd have over time. it utilizes a five eighths inch, pitch pin.

It does not come with one so you would have to order one, separately. In my opinion, definitely go ahead and pick up one of the locking ones. That way you don't have to worry about anyone taking off with your bike rack or your cargo carrier. It also has these nice loops for safety chains, if you did have this on a fifth wheel instead. The money brackets for this hitch are gonna fit a C channel, a box frame or a I-beam frame, like what we have on our trailer today.

It does come with a 3,500 pound towing capacity and 350 pound tongue weight capacity. Now if you we're looking for something a little bit higher, typically, when we get this kind of question, on the expert side, I usually see it for cargo carriers because people are hauling a large generator or they just have a lot of stuff that they really need to put on there and it's gonna be too heavy. But when you start getting in the higher capacity ones it does start to shrink down. So you really gotta look at that frame width and make sure that you actually have the right one. And then from there, then you can start picking through, and picking whatever is the highest tongue weight capacity. So when figuring out our placement for our brackets we realize that we are going to come into contact with the beam that holds our bumper. Not only that but our receiver tube is also gonna be blocked by the bumper, but our neighbor today is totally fine with that because they're gonna have it notched out right here cause they're just using it as a little bit of a storage for their drain tube for their black tank. So what we're gonna have to do is kind of cut down our cross member as well just because it comes in at 68 and a half inches, but we only have 66 and a half inches from this beam to the other side of our other beam. So, what we're gonna do right now is just take off an inch and just probably about an eighth on each side as well just so that it's not super skin tight. You know it's okay if we have like a little bit extra but we wanna make sure that we can easily get this in because while you're mounting this up you're going to have to stick both brackets up onto your cross beam, hold that up in place and then slide the brackets up against the I-beams of your trailer frame. So it'll make it a little bit easier if we're not skin tight and kind of rubbing against that beam that's already there. So what I've got ahead and done is slipped my brackets onto my cross tube and I've got it held up in place and I've just kind of pushed the brackets all the way out and then I've got 'em at the end of our I-beam as far as I can go because we're gonna want to get this as far out as we can so that when we hook up accessories, say bike ra