Zomar
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Replace the Two springs under the hitch plate. Takes less than 10 minutes each and only cost $4.00 each from e trailer. You can also ordr the Correct lock. and you have a newly REBUILT unit. Thats all it would take for peace of mind. I did and glad I did. Take the head off look under it its a surprisingly simple "locking mechanism."
Me, DW, & Pogo the bouncing Rat Terrier
'99 F250 7.3 Super Duty ext. cab Firestone air bags, Bilstien shocks
2003 Artic Fox 24-5 5th wheel
Jefe: Could it be that once again you are angry for something else, and you are taking it out on me?
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Puddles
Lafayette, Indiana
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BruceStarkey wrote:You folks with lighter duty Reese hitches (non signature series) could do yourselves a small test with a good sized pry bar to verify if the wear within your hitches linkage is allowing enough strain on the handle to force an opening if the locking latch isn't engaged. I demonstrated this once to my neighbour by putting the bar into the slight gap between the outer points of the jaws and prying back and forth and within three swings of that bar she opened up!
Prying on the outer points of the jaws is different than the pin pulling straight back through the jaws to come loose.. the jaws are designed so that the more pressure the pin pulls back, the closer they come together.. visualize japaneese handcuffs...
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TomG2
Central Illinois
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Thanks Puddles. I did the pry bar test and of course the jaws opened. In fact they are supposed to spread when pressure is applied from the rear, that is the way Reese says to hitch up. Pushing them back open from the front is a different story.
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kdogeod
Bonita, Ca
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Camped and/or fueled by 3 different folks this summer in my travels back and forth country that had similar mis-hap and re-enforced my unexperienced decision to go with a Pull-rite mainly because of visible half-moon cams that engulf king-pin. This is something I check consantly hitching and unhitching. These failures seem a product of design, albeit their are plenty that attribute their performance with bought product to something they do, I do not think the model in question securely holds king-pin with the clams.
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TomG2
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kdogeod wrote:Camped and/or fueled by 3 different folks this summer in my travels back and forth country that had similar mis-hap and re-enforced my unexperienced decision to go with a Pull-rite mainly because of visible half-moon cams that engulf king-pin. This is something I check consantly hitching and unhitching. These failures seem a product of design, albeit their are plenty that attribute their performance with bought product to something they do, I do not think the model in question securely holds king-pin with the clams.
Are you saying that lots of people are losing their fifth wheel trailers because of some weakness in the design of standard Reese hitches?
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Working4ALivin
Santa Rosa,CA
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X2 with MrSeven21. I have a husky. Once the hook closes around the pin its staying there.
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Dave H M
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Boy some scarey stuff here. I think I am gonna stick with the type of hitch that has the big slider bar that goes CLANG and slides behind the king pin when I hook up. Surely that thing can't bend - but now after 10 years I am gonna check it.
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ryoung
Indiana
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jdog wrote:It seems some people are saying that the single sliding bar model is bad while others are saying that the 2 jaw model is bad. As I understand the OP, he is talking about the single sliding bar locking model and the 2 jaw locking models are O.K Is this correct? If not , please clarify.
It depends on which type hitch you have and which type is reported as a failure.
If you have the sliding bar type hitch and someone reports a mishap with the jaw type hitch, then the sliding bar type is superior.
If you have a jaw type hitch and someone reports a mishap with the sliding bar type, then the jaw type is better.
Get the picture.
All hitches, regardless of brand, type, or age will malfunction if not properly used and maintained.
ryoung
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B W M
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There is such a thing that to much grease is no good.When I ran over the road we made sure not to use to much grease. Try cleaning it good then put a little oil on it.
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skylos
Issaquah, WA
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Do tell B W M. What is too much grease going to do?
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