Urgent pull rite hitch help needed
Our pull rite 20k hitch won"t release. It looks like the lock lever is bent up by the hitch pin. We can"t unhitch. We would like to level the trailer, but can"t figure out if we will make it bette...
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ol Bombero-JC wrote:schlep1967 wrote:
Ignore the first sentence!
The "anybodys" are referring to UN-hitching.
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And like I said, If you lift the trailer off the plate you risk pinching the jaws between the bottom lip of the pin and the bottom of the hitch plate. If you continualy do this you will damage the latching part of your hitch. There may be some fifthwheel hitches out there that the instructions tell you to do that. Pull-Rite is not one of them. Again look at how the system works. Look at the pin shape. Get a yardstick or other thin piece of wood and look under the hitch. You will see a small protusion sticking down. Carefully push on that with the stick until the hitch snaps shut while keeping fingers out of the way. Now with the jaw closed look at the hitch. The "post" fits through the hole you see down the middle. The "lip" at the bottom of the post is larger than the hole down the middle. As long as the pin box is sitting flush on the plate there is no way the "lip" at the bottom can bind on anything preventing you from pulling the handle and unlatching or from easily pulling out from under the pin box. If you lift the pinbox off the plate you can pinch the jaw between the bottom "lip" and the bottom of the plate. Making it hard or impossible to unlatch. If you do get it unlatched and the pull out you will be dragging that "lip" across the moving parts of your hitch.
I worked as a yard jockey at a trucking company for 10 years. Hooking and unhooking up to 100 times a night. I've been using a pull-rite for 4 years and have never had any problem hooking or unhooking while useing the proper technique as described in the instruction book I got with the pull-rite hitch. Keep the pin box on the plate when hooking and unhooking.
