I learned something last weekend...

Granted, I've got the trail air, not the airborne, but that doesn't sound right. I don't think you should need to repeatedly fill and deflate for hitching. You sure your jaws are releasing correctly? Is this the first time you've used the airborne? Hopefully someone will have an answer so I can learn something today!

my 5th airborne is inflated to 80PSI and my Airbags to 20PSI and I don't have to inflated/deflate anything to hook and unhook. Something odd is happening to you.

I never change the air pressure in my 5th Airborne. Don't have air bags.

Did you try backing into your hitch slightly to relieve pressure before pulling the handle?

No air bags on truck, but have the 5thAB and never had to change PSI in 5thAB to hook/unhook. Just add air when needed once hooked to reach mark on shock.

Well... looks like I mis-labelled this thread.

See, I thought I had a mis-match between the PSI in the Reese and the air bags creating impingement on the pin by the Husky cross bar. Independently, all mechanisms appear to be functioning correctly. Next "test" will be lower inflation pressure on the Reese... I went with 80 PSI as it seemed to be forum wisdom consensus as a general "range" for towing bliss. I will keep playing with the combo to find PSI Nirvana.

BTW...I did try pulling forward and backing up without success in freeing the release bar. Thank you for the input . For the first time in the years I have owned the fiver I noticed "bow wave" from the big rigs.... I suspect an over-shoot on the aforementioned PSI's. (That having been said... first trip on new tires on truck and trailer ., sure was a smooth ride) :W

Charles

On my Airborne there are notches in the vertical brace at the rear of the bottom plate. I painted the notches white and pressurize the bag to the notch. This puts the airbag in the center of its travel. Never had a problem hitching or unhitching with this method.

I don't get the 50psi in the air bags,way too much in my opinion.I ran my 3500 ram with 3000 pin wt at 22/24 psi loaded.Too much air makes the truck suspension float allowing it to move around.

Jim and AL

...thanks for the input. I was tweaking what I normally run with this trip... going on the mid range of the product literature and what forumites seemed to report as "average". Looks like at my pin weight and loading plan for the fiver , as well as Airborne bladder location (mid point) , I do not need nearly what I had tried. Will keep searching for "ideal". I guess a perfect run would be ...no "porpoising" , no "chucking", no "clunking", no "bow wave-ing", and no labor in un-hitching. My goals. :B

Charles

Try varying the psi say a little more one side than the other, will soften some of the bumps allowing a minor transfer of weight .Have fun.

Took a couple trips on same road to same CG to find the right mounting location of the bladder on the 5AB. Has been there since.