Pull tests
In another thread there was a lot of talk about pull tests. In 1997 we got our first 5th wheel and a Hijacker 16k Ultra sliding bar hitch. We never did pull tests. The hitch in 2001 moved two a se...
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Dave H M wrote:rhagfo wrote:Dave H M wrote:
:S I don't do a pull test. Saves me some effort. however I do look closely at the jaws.
So all these posts about pull testing and dropping the trailer and such, got me so paranoid that I spent a couple of bucks and installed a Butch's Services sliding bar on the hitch also. :W
LOL!
Now you have something in the way of hitching correctly making you raise the pin box a little higher to miss the Butch's latch. Now a fix can cause the problem.
What are you talking about. :h The slider bar of the Butch's services safety gets slid in behind the king pin (like down on the angled part) AFTER the hitch is latched in around the king pin. Please explain, i think you may be misleading some folks here.
One will tend to have the pin box higher, so as not to hit the bar and attaching parts, so the likelihood of a high hitch is greater.
