B&W Companion users

transamz9 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Best use for a drop in bed liner is to put it upside down and let some farm animal use it for shelter.

They make a heck of a multi-person snow sled also.....

In all seriousness though, does or can someone get a picture of the under side of a Companion hitch. Also, how thick are the little adjustable feet that rest on the bed and their dimensions? I'm brain storming here. I hate the drop-ins too but I got what I got and first things first, I need a hitch and I would really like to make the B&W work and work correctly with the bed liner I have at the moment.

The Companion I have, that works with the Turnover Ball, does not have adjustable "feet". There are 4 ~1/4" thick rubber pads that sit directly on the bed. The square tube that goes into the receiver is designed to bottom out on the hole in perfect alignment with the cross-pin. You then screw down the hold down bolt that's in the Companion frame into the vertical tube and torque to 40 lb ft. As mine's the old style, I have 2 u-bolts that are then tightened around the vertical tube and torqued to 80 lb ft. As you can see, there is no "adjustment" on the older Companions. I'm not familiar at all with the newer versions, though I do know that trucks in the past couple years have been having issues with the bed corrugation crushing/bending under load. B&W has addressed this with an insert that replaces the flat rubber pads with a pad that fits into the bed corrugation to spread the load at the corners onto a larger surface area. A really stupid way to take 5 lbs off a truck, IMO, by making the working surface thinner and less durable. Yet one more reason to have a quality spray-in liner.

Lyle