Bent Kingpin?
Greetings all.
I got a new truck - and a new hitch - thanks to you all for your opinions.
Hooked up the new hitch and the trailer and the world looked good - after some height adjustment.
Things looked good. Until tonight.
As I pulled into Santa Fe on my way back to Denver, I was looking in the rear view mirror and thought the spacing between the bed and the bottom of the 5er was small. So I Pulled into the Motel and stepped back. The entire kingpin looks like it's bent upwards - and had actually bent the front fiberglass nose of the 5er.
I've never seen (let alone heard of) something like this.
Tomorrow I can raise the hitch up - but I don't think that's going to stop the collapse of the kingpin into the nose and eventually it'll hit the bed of the truck.
I have no idea what I'm looking at - if I can risk the 400 miles to Denver.
Since I've never disassembled the plastic around the tongue to figure out what's behind it, I have no idea what i'm getting into (and won't until tomorrow.
It's a Lippert chassis - cougar 244rls 2010
Thanks in advance!
josh
I got a new truck - and a new hitch - thanks to you all for your opinions.
Hooked up the new hitch and the trailer and the world looked good - after some height adjustment.
Things looked good. Until tonight.
As I pulled into Santa Fe on my way back to Denver, I was looking in the rear view mirror and thought the spacing between the bed and the bottom of the 5er was small. So I Pulled into the Motel and stepped back. The entire kingpin looks like it's bent upwards - and had actually bent the front fiberglass nose of the 5er.
I've never seen (let alone heard of) something like this.
Tomorrow I can raise the hitch up - but I don't think that's going to stop the collapse of the kingpin into the nose and eventually it'll hit the bed of the truck.
I have no idea what I'm looking at - if I can risk the 400 miles to Denver.
Since I've never disassembled the plastic around the tongue to figure out what's behind it, I have no idea what i'm getting into (and won't until tomorrow.
It's a Lippert chassis - cougar 244rls 2010
Thanks in advance!
josh
