Breakaway Cable
Like most people, I put my Breakaway Cable over the 5th Wheel hitch arm. On my last trip, when I reached my destination, the cable was just laying freely in the bed of my truck. At first I thought tha...
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bpounds wrote:RobWNY wrote:
Does anyone know how many hitch failures there have been where the whole hitch came loose from the truck bed? I see this as being the kind of situation where the breakaway cable might not get pulled to activate the trailer brakes. I think if it's a jaw failure and the king pin comes loose, the breakaway cable would get pulled because the cable is attached to the hitch that remains bolted to the truck bed floor or am I missing something?
Nah, you're not missing anything. This is just a bunch of nervous nellies doing what they do.
If the jaws/pin fail, the cable gets pulled.
If the whole hitch pulls out of the truck, I'm pretty sure a hitch dangling from that cable will also pull it.
A better question might be, has anyone actually gotten a citation for attaching his e-brake cable to the hitch? Maybe so, but that would be the unluckiest bugger you've never met.
Did you do a test pull on that coiled cable by pulling it at the 90 degree angle that you have?
