Plate to plate gap
Last year we bought our first trailer and it is a FW. When we went to hook it up, the salesman noticed a gap between the two plates, so he pulled the hitch that was stored in the trailer and we put i...
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garyp4951 wrote:
I have seen one instance where the thickness of the teflon plate kept the jaws of the hitch from closing on the small part of the shank. The teflon was removed, and it hitched up ok.
I encountered the same thing. After moving to a long-bed truck and able to pin my Sidewinder and remove the wedge (to act like a conventional pinbox), I found the jaws wrapped so low on the king pin, the teflon plate lifted the pin slightly and made it temperamental to hitch properly. Over time, the plate has compressed or worn a bit and things are easier. This photo shows the grease marks from the jaws without the plate.
