etrailer | Curt Ball and Safety Chain Loop Kit Installation - 2020 GMC Sierra 2500 C38CR

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Hey everybody. Today we're going to be going over and showing you how to install the Curt Ball and Safety Chain Loop Kit here on our 2020 GMC Sierra 2500. So this kit here is going to be specific for models with the factory prep package. Now the factory prep package, it'll be pretty easy to identify, we're going to have four pucks one here on each about side, and then we're going to have the center gooseneck hitch.So you are going to need to have this factory equipment in order to use this ball and safety chain kit. So the ball and safety chain kit here is pretty much going to be the only thing we need to tow a gooseneck trailer. We're going to have our 2 5/16" hitch ball here, which will attach to our gooseneck coupler.

And then by law, we're going to have to have two safety chains for our gooseneck trailer. We're going to be able to attach those easily to our nice and wide safety chain loops here.What's really nice about these factory prep packages here. We only need a couple things to be able to tow a gooseneck trailer, but everything is also really easy to use. Now we'll show you a little bit more in-depth later, but essentially, all we need to do to remove our gooseneck hitch ball is simply flip this lever up and then rotate it 90 degrees so then we can pull it straight out. In order to insert it simply drop it into place, rotate it back towards the rear, and then lock it down.So again, this is going to be really easy, but what I do want to make note is, that unless you have a tonneau cover, you really don't want to store your hitch ball in the actual gooseneck hitch because it can give a tendency to get stuck over time as water, dirt, and corrosion gets in there, that'd be really hard to remove.

So I definitely recommend greasing everything down, but it's also still advised to go ahead and take this out while not in use unless you have a tonneau cover.We have this nice convenient carrying case that's going to come with our kit here. It will easily allow us to store us our hitch ball and our two safety chain loops. We can store it inside the cab there when we need it. We don't have to worry about losing them everything is going to be in one nice convenient location. There we go, now it can set this back in the cab of our vehicle and then get it when we need to use it.So with our gooseneck hitch ball here, we're not going to have to worry about any weight capacity issues.

The hitch ball is going to be rated at 38,000 pounds, which chances are, that's far going to exceed your truck. So although your hitch ball is going to be rated that much, you do need to check your owner's manual to see how much your truck can tow and then abide by the lower of the two ratings. But essentially we're not going to have to worry about our hitch ball here being the weakest component.Last but not least, we're going to get a nice, durable, rubber plug here that we can place inside the gooseneck hitch opening when we're not using it to just keep everything in there nice and clean so we don't have any issues when we go to re-insert our hitch ball.So to start our installation here we're going to take one of our safety chain tabs. We're actually going to be installing these in the rearmost pucks. So we have two sets here, ones that are closer to the cab and these back ones here that are closer to the tailgate.

We'll be installing these tabs here in the rearmost pucks. So it's super easy to do this. We're going to first remove our pin and clip here. I'll show you how to do that. So we have this little linchpin here. It's got a little snap ring on it, open that up, pull it out then we can simply remove the pin. So once we have that out, what we're going to do is, we're going to go ahead and take our tab here and insert it into the puck. You will have to line it up a certain way to start. It doesn't matter if we start this way or this way, but we're going to align the notches up here, simply drop it into place, and then we can rotate it back towards the tailgate. See there, secured.Now we're going to take our pin here. We're going to slip it into the little hole on the top. The angled portion is going to be facing back towards the cab like so. Then we can take our linchpin and clip here, making sure that the offset edge is going to be facing up like so. We'll insert it through there and then we'll close it to lock it in place. And this is going to stop the puck from being able to turn and pull out. You can see here, we can't turn it all the way to get it out. We're simply just going to repeat the same process here on the other side. Once we have both of our safety chain ta