etrailer | Setting up the Curt Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver on a 2016 Ford F-250 Super Duty

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Hey everyone, Ryan here at etrailer, today under a 2016 Ford F-250 super duty. We're gonna be showing you how to install the Curt front-mount trailer hitch. Before we do that though, let's take a minute, check this out, and make sure it's gonna work for you. So by puttin' a front hitch on your truck, it's going to help open up your opportunities on what you're gonna be able to get done. People use these for a variety of different reasons. Some people use 'em for a winch mount, light-duty snowplows, things like that.
You know, you can push trailers around with it if you got a lot and move trailers around a whole bunch, put a ball mount in here and do that. But it seems like nowadays it's getting pretty popular to use different types of accessories on the front. You know, if you're pulling your camper or something around and you want to bring the family's bikes with you, you can put a bike rack in here. What our neighbor's doing today, they're using a spare tire carrier. So they keep their tire up here and still use their other accessories on the back of the truck.
This hitch is going to work with trucks that have a diesel engine or gasoline engine, so, covered there. And it's only compatible with four-wheel-drive models. So keep that in mind, if you have a two-wheel-drive, not a big deal, there's other options available, there's a Draw-Tite and Eco Hitch. And just to compare this one to those, you know, with the Curt and the Draw-Tite, they're gonna be pretty similar in where they're gonna sit. You know, the thing is with the Curt though, it's kind of nice, you can have it where the receiver tube is gonna sit up higher off the ground for more clearance, or you can install it the other way around to where it's gonna hang down a little bit.
So, for those of you that might have a lifted truck where it's way up in the air and you'd rather it be down some, you know, you can always do that with the Curt. And then when it comes to the Eco Hitch, that one's gonna be kind of on its own. That one, the receiver tube is actually gonna be way up here in this opening. And they give you a plate where you connect your license plate to, and when you're ready to use it, you'll pull this piece off and have access to it. As far as the weight capacities go, it's gonna have a 500-pound vertical load limit, which will be the amount of weight pushing down on the hitch, and that's a pretty good number.
You should be able to use just about any accessory that you'd want to in terms of spare tire carrier, bike rack, something along those lines. It's gonna have a 5,000-pound maximum gross trailer weight rating. So something to think about, you know, if you are pushing trailers around, it's gonna be the weight of the trailer plus anything you might have in or on it, and it's going to have a 9,000-pound vertical line pull. So for those of you that might be using a winch or something like that, that's how much the hitch is gonna be able to handle. The opening of the receiver tube is going to be a two-inch by two-inch, which is a good thing, super common size. And the pin hole is actually going to be behind this plastic piece. Ours is broken, so we can kind of bend it out of the way and show you there. It's just gonna use a standard five-eights pin and clip, doesn't come with one, if you need one, not a huge deal, you can grab it here at etrailer. And you got a couple options really, if you set it up this way, you can always go in from behind there, put the pin in, that's probably what I would do. You could always trim a little more out to get access to it, or can completely remove this, or if you flip this, you know, if you end up installing this upside down, you have a little better access to it too. So, regardless of what you do, not really a big deal. You can still get to that pin hole. We'll grab a couple measurements now and these will help you figure out what type of accessories are gonna work best. So going from the ground to the top inside edge of our receiver tube opening, taking into account the lift that we're parked on, that's going to be about 15 inches. And just as a reference too, you know, since it is popular to put bigger tires on these trucks and lift 'em and everything, ours appears to be completely stock in terms of lift kits and things like that. And ou