Video of B&W Flex
I have posted about my concerns with the flexing I have seen in my B&W hitch while riding in the bed with my wife driving. Well, I got a new camera and decided to make a video of it.....B&W Vid ...
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NJRVer wrote:greende wrote:
Okay, I'll weigh in here though I'm probably going to regret it. I watched the video and read all the posts.
There will never be a bolt-on system without flex and there probably shouldn't be as the stresses have to go somewhere. I firmly believe that the flex I saw on the video was not out of line. The issue is with the truck manufacturers making the beds cheaper and allowing the flex to crush the ribs. The B&W Companion was designed when they used real steel in the beds. In retrospect, it would have been better for B&W to design a footprint to distribute more of the weight but who knew? And who knows what the next design change will cause even to conventional hitches.
I cannot explain the other structural problems that the OP experienced, but the rib crushing issue is more on GM & others than it is on B&W.
Thanks for listening.....
X2.
I agree. Anything you can do that would spread out the weight across the bed would help out.
I didn't really think the video was showing anything drastically wrong considering the stresses that must be going on while you drive down the road.
Maybe you had to Be there to see something else.
You are right, its not that bad now. You had to be there to see it on a rough road BEFORE I installed the Moryde! It was at least 2 maybe even 3 times more than this.
