5th wheel hitch hanging from king pin
I would like to be able to use the bed of my truck but do not have the strength to remove the 5th wheel hitch. Is it a safe practice to hook the rv to the hitch, pull the bed rail pins and raise the ...
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Cummins12V98 wrote:JIMNLIN wrote:sidney wrote:
If you can't hang a 200-300 lbs hitch from the king pin... how could you expect to tow a 10,000 lb 5th wheel with a 2000 lb pin weight safely?
The concern isn't weight hanging from the pin box but rather the hitch jaws/pins holding the weight of the hitch according to hitch makers I've talked with. Others hitch owners may have a different input from their hitch maker.
Look at the 1" thick jaws on the B&W they are designed to have a load in all directions.
Nothing special about the B&W or other hitch brands with 1" thick jaws other than for advertising or constant bragging.
The load when pulling is on the jaws but more importantly the jaws pins which are more of a concern than any certain jaw thickness.
Jaw strength is more to do with the type alloy/psi rating in the material.
