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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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.
If the hitch jaws/pins can not handle a static load of 300 lbs how in the world can we expect them to handle a 18,000 lb trailer going down a rough road and across railroad tracks!!! I used 18,000 lbs as that is the load rating of my hitch.
