โDec-11-2015 11:31 AM
โDec-17-2015 08:33 AM
blofgren wrote:
I use a padlock to lock the hitch handle in the closed position when I am hooked up and I put the loop of the breakaway cable onto the shank of the padlock before I put it into the hitch handle.
My wife's uncle who we travel with often had some "funny" guy pull his hitch release several years ago while parked causing him to drop his trailer onto the bedrails of his truck. I have been using a lock on my hitch ever since to avoid this type of vandalism.
โDec-17-2015 08:30 AM
dapperdan wrote:Old-Biscuit wrote:
Looped end of cable goes on handle of 5th wheel hitch.
X3 On the handle.
Dan
โDec-17-2015 08:28 AM
rhagfo wrote:
Same here, but looking to find or create a better location!! This after the cable hung up on the hitch and pulled the pin while backing into an uphill blind side space, NOT a fun experience!!!!!
โDec-16-2015 05:05 PM
Timay wrote:DHCamper wrote:Might as well throw the break away switch in the trash, then. If no safety stopping, no use for the switch.
Everyone should check how their trailer is wired. Everything in my Rockwood is wired after the switch. Towing with the switch off means that the break away safety function will not work if activated.
Years ago we pulled a trailer house (a trailer house, not an RV) and since it didn't have a battery and items needed for RVing (think The Long, Long Trailer - we predated that movie) it didn't have a safety break away switch, my father drilled a hole in the handle of a regular light switch, tied a string through it, hooked it to the brakes and a dry cell battery and that was our safety break away switch - and shows my dad's commitment to safety.
And yes, I get that you 'turn it on' when traveling...but still - human memory being what it is...
Tim
โDec-16-2015 02:59 PM
DHCamper wrote:Might as well throw the break away switch in the trash, then. If no safety stopping, no use for the switch.
Everyone should check how their trailer is wired. Everything in my Rockwood is wired after the switch. Towing with the switch off means that the break away safety function will not work if activated.
โDec-16-2015 11:18 AM
DHCamper wrote:
Everyone should check how their trailer is wired. Everything in my Rockwood is wired after the switch. Towing with the switch off means that the break away safety function will not work if activated.
โDec-16-2015 10:43 AM
โDec-15-2015 04:40 PM
โDec-15-2015 04:26 PM
Timay wrote:djgarcia wrote:That would be an alternative, and either wire as the breakaway switch is just that - a switch. Close the switch, the brakes come on - open the switch, the brakes go off. By cutting the wire, you are just opening the switch - either wire will do.
Is an alternative to just to cut one of the wires up by the break away switch, if so, which wire???
Tim
โDec-15-2015 03:45 PM
djgarcia wrote:That would be an alternative, and either wire as the breakaway switch is just that - a switch. Close the switch, the brakes come on - open the switch, the brakes go off. By cutting the wire, you are just opening the switch - either wire will do.
Is an alternative to just to cut one of the wires up by the break away switch, if so, which wire???
โDec-15-2015 07:19 AM
djgarcia wrote:BarneyS wrote:
Those switches are quite inexpensive and easily replaceable by just about anybody. If however you are unable to do so, I would just disconnect the battery and tow the vehicle to the repair shop. By doing that the emergency breakaway will not be functionable so drive very carefully.
May not be legal but that is what I would do - depending on how far away the repair shop was and whether travel on high speed highways was necessary.
Barney
Would that be the same as using the "battery switch" knob and just turning it off like you do when you put the 5th wheel into storage for the winter??
โDec-15-2015 05:39 AM
Colo Native wrote:
I have a spring clip and hook to the bed rail
โDec-15-2015 05:32 AM
joelc wrote:
I have a closed end hook that is connected to the bar that my hitch is mounted to. I unscrew the opening in the hook, and put the loop in there. It is solid.
โDec-14-2015 04:03 PM
BarneyS wrote:djgarcia wrote:BarneyS wrote:
Those switches are quite inexpensive and easily replaceable by just about anybody. If however you are unable to do so, I would just disconnect the battery and tow the vehicle to the repair shop. By doing that the emergency breakaway will not be functionable so drive very carefully.
May not be legal but that is what I would do - depending on how far away the repair shop was and whether travel on high speed highways was necessary.
Barney
Would that be the same as using the "battery switch" knob and just turning it off like you do when you put the 5th wheel into storage for the winter??
Probably not. That battery disconnect switch is usually for the house batteries but the breakaway is most likely wired directly to the battery and would not be affected by that switch.
I guess it kind of depends on how the switch is wired. You should be able to take a look and see where the breakaway wire goes.
Barney