CHUCK no more...

rhagfo wrote:

csamayfield55 wrote:

Searching_Ut wrote:
I've been checking the pin boxes of rigs I see with the andersen ultimate after
the 1621HD on my rig was damaged by the hitch adapter. I have seen seen damaged MR pin boxes. All the pin weight is carried on just the two pins between the ball and the pin teeter totter fashion which the pin boxes weren't designed for. I would recommend going with the heavy duty plate or getting a shim from Andersen to distribute the weight better.

What are you talking about?? The weight is carried in the same place as normal, right at the pin! The set bolt holds the adapter in the pin groove with the large bolts. The 4 set screws keep it from spinning and moving. There just doesn't seem to be any merit to your post

Chris

Well the pin weight is carried on the points of the four set screws. They hold the adapter block a small distance off the pin box plate, so therefore carry all the weight of the pin. This is what damaged Searching_UT's plate.

The set screws bear a portion of the pin weight, but when the vehicle is in motion, physics demands that the pin itself also bears some weight. I totally agree that the Andersen adapter resulted in damage to SearchingUT's pin box, but it was never determined if his pinbox was structurally correct in the first place. If I recall that thread correctly, there was a lot of back and forth about how the internal part of the pinbox is constructed, and how his perhaps might have had a deficiency. He said Andersen blamed it on a bad pinbox, which could very well have been the case. I know there's a lot of people using the Andersen with a standard 1621 pinbox without issue, and I would expect that if this were a legitimate problem, we'd be hearing more about it.