5th wheel help
Please any help will be appreciated! I have a Rockwood 8280WS with the reese revolution and a reese titan 20K hitch with the correct wedge. the problem is unhitching on uneven ground after leveling...
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rmoore0852 wrote:
Be sure you are not lifting the trailer too much with the landing gear. If you put the landing gear down too far, it lifts the kingpin in the hitch. This causes the wider part at the bottom of the kingpin to put upward pressure on the jaws, jamming them. When unhooking, use the landing gear to take up some of the weight, but when you drive out from under the trailer the truck should still raise up 1/4 to 1/2". Same principle as when hooking up, the truck should squat just a little as you back under the trailer. That's why there are ramps on the back of the 5th wheel plate and front of the pinbox.
What rmoore said, X1. When unhooking I raise the trailer hitch just up to the point I can see daylight between the trailer and the 5th. wheel hitch, then I pull the release handle.
