Straight from B&W
OK, guys. Here's the straight scoop from a B&W engineer. As I contended in another thread, he said that the Turnover Ball base and Companion FW hitch =system=, carries the vast majority of the pin l...
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I want to be really clear I do not think B&W had a design flaw with the original 18K companion because when they designed their base the truck beds were much stronger and the part of the base rails that was over the valley in the corrugation when the base was in my 11 RAM was sitting over the top of a rib on my 98 RAM. They did change the base and upped the rating to 20K to accommodate the newer truck conditions.
