That went as expected-Part Deux
After my first failure to get the 5th wheel backed into the site. I got a friend of mine to help guide me this time and I ignored my wife(after 25 years of marriage that part is getting easier). Put...
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Couple of tips that may save you some headache down the road.
what hitch do you have? You may have said and I missed it. I have a reese with double jaws. One of the first things I did was tape it off and paint the backs of the jaws bright yellow so I can easily see them and see that they've latched behind the pin.
When raising the fifth wheel watch the bottom of the pin box in relation to the top of your hitch. You'll see it lift up off the base of your hitch. I let it come up about a half inch. That's the point you have no weight on the actual hitch at all and will make pulling the release much easier.
I also taped off a stripe on the back of my hitch and another one directly above my pin on the pinbox and painted a yellow stripe on each. When backing under it I just line up the 2 stripes.
what hitch do you have? You may have said and I missed it. I have a reese with double jaws. One of the first things I did was tape it off and paint the backs of the jaws bright yellow so I can easily see them and see that they've latched behind the pin.
When raising the fifth wheel watch the bottom of the pin box in relation to the top of your hitch. You'll see it lift up off the base of your hitch. I let it come up about a half inch. That's the point you have no weight on the actual hitch at all and will make pulling the release much easier.
I also taped off a stripe on the back of my hitch and another one directly above my pin on the pinbox and painted a yellow stripe on each. When backing under it I just line up the 2 stripes.
