Hitch pin broke
Hello all, Going from the Los Angeles area up to Reno, NV. Got 1 mile from the end of the ride when the hitch pin broke and the Fiat Abarth driver's side hit the passenger side of the MH. Luckily we ...
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I was wrong in thinking it was ok. It was not. I know little but my other half is an engineer and saw what was wrong. I was going off what little I know to start. It was a locking hitch pin that sheared at a point making it like ok to me, not to someone who knows what to look at. If we had been able to get the pin off the highway we would have to send it to the manufacturer for analysis but it was on the off ramp. we were looking but traffic prevented us from getting it off the road.
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It is just amazing that you and your other 1/2 were able to go back and inspect the sheared off pin, which had to be in 3 pcs, and while it was still laying on the off ramp, too far away,.....or traffic to heavy for you to get it.
I was wrong in thinking it was ok. It was not. I know little but my other half is an engineer and saw what was wrong. I was going off what little I know to start. It was a locking hitch pin that sheared at a point making it like ok to me, not to someone who knows what to look at. If we had been able to get the pin off the highway we would have to send it to the manufacturer for analysis but it was on the off ramp. we were looking but traffic prevented us from getting it off the road.
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It is just amazing that you and your other 1/2 were able to go back and inspect the sheared off pin, which had to be in 3 pcs, and while it was still laying on the off ramp, too far away,.....or traffic to heavy for you to get it.
