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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fj12ryder wrote:
Okay, I'm officially confused. :) I do the same as you with my B&W Companion hitch: put my pin below my hitch head and slide the pin up and into the hitch. But the nylon disc doesn't interfere with any of that.
I must be missing something.
One of the things you accomplish as you back up under your king pin is level or position the truck 5th wheel hitch horizonally. This is why we start out 1/2 inch below the plate so the caming action can occur. Watch it sometime. When the square front of the plate contacts the hitch it levels it. In other words if the two plates are not parallel you risk "high hitching or having the king pin above the jaws." All I'm saying is that with the disk in place I sometimes did not end up with the plates totally parallel. The nylon disk did not interfere with the king pin or jaws. It just prevented the hitch in the truck from leveling itself and becoming parallel with the plate on the king pin.
