Plastic disc on fifth wheel hitch
I bought the plastic disc for my fifth wheel hitch and thought it would help on the mess of grease. It worked fine and when I tried to hookup the other day the jaws would not close completely. I took ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
They are not 'plastic'
They are Teflon hence the lubricating properties
*Allows the hitch head plate and the pin box plate to slide up over each other when hitching up (pin box plate lower than hitch head plate------eliminates high hitching)
*Allows the pin box and hitch to rotate on each other when making turns
Teflon plate replaces the need for greasing the plates.
They come in different thicknesses and dimensions
Greasing of king pin/hitch jaws still a good idea due to metal/metal contact.
OB, the type of plastic doesn't really matter, but I think you will find that the disks are made of High Density Poly. Same thing the machine slides and snowmobile slides are made of. Does the same function that you so expertly outlined, however.
