grease or glide plate
Just bought a mountaineer 5er. Ive seen these plates that go on hitch are they better than using grease.
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Vulcaneer wrote:Likes to tow wrote:
When you position this plate 1/2 inch below the surface of the hitch plate it will "cam" or move the rotating hitch to the correct positon. Now when there is a round teflon pad on the king pin, it makes the front of this area "round" and no camming or proper movement for alighnment will occur. This caused me great difficulty especially when trying to hitch up in areas that were not perfectly level.
The only hitches that I know of that use a rotating hitch plate, are the Highjacker, or SuperGlide automatic sliding hitches. There may be others that I am not aware of. What kind of hitch do you have?
The Teflon disk is NOT to be used with the SuperGlide. Not enough room for it, as that hitch uses a capture plate instead, and the hitch head rotates, so there is no benefit to using a teflon disk even if it did fit.
I'm not sure what you mean by a "rotating hitch plate." However my hitch is a Reese and it pivots side to side and back to forward. It must be at the same horizontal axis as the plate on the bottom of the 5th wheel (king pin plate) I always adjust the level of the 5th wheel to be at least 1/2 inch below the hitch plate. The square front on the 5th wheel plate (king pin plate) will cam or hit the 5th wheel hitch and level it to the proper horizontal angle. With a teflon disc, the rounded front of the disc would not do this.
