Excessive Wear on Catch Plate! Help?
So... I've had the RV less than a year. I've only driven it about 3,000 miles. Pin Box & catch plate installed at Holiday World Houston (where I bought the RV). I just did a visual inspection in pr...
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HW attached the capture plate to my pin box. The plate is needed for sliding hitches. The area showing wear is the underside of the plate, just behind where the plate has a bolt pressure-contacting the puck. The steel box around/protesting the bolt is showing the wear... loss of over 1mm of steel with only 3,000 miles is a concern. I suspect something is off & am confident Pullrite will have a recommendation once I send them the photos.
I guess I'm glad for everyone else that it isn't so common that others had experience with it.
YAY! Many thanks to Pullrite... the mystery is solved!!
Lesson Learned: when a 5thW with a capture plate goes in to the shop for maintenance... the shop may not use the right equipment to move the RV. The 'standard' equipment can cause the damage that happened to mine. The fellow from Pullrite also spotted that one side of the locking bolt (which attaches the plate to the king pin) had been shorn off. On the plus side, the rig was still safe to take on the road. On the down side, the plate will be tougher to get off the RV & there was enough stress to mis-align the plate relative to the pin box.
Next up - getting a new capture plate in place.
I guess I'm glad for everyone else that it isn't so common that others had experience with it.
YAY! Many thanks to Pullrite... the mystery is solved!!
Lesson Learned: when a 5thW with a capture plate goes in to the shop for maintenance... the shop may not use the right equipment to move the RV. The 'standard' equipment can cause the damage that happened to mine. The fellow from Pullrite also spotted that one side of the locking bolt (which attaches the plate to the king pin) had been shorn off. On the plus side, the rig was still safe to take on the road. On the down side, the plate will be tougher to get off the RV & there was enough stress to mis-align the plate relative to the pin box.
Next up - getting a new capture plate in place.
