Which 5th wheel hitch

Wild Card wrote:

Searching_Ut wrote:

N-Trouble wrote:

sin cal hd wrote:
Been around the .net for sometime the weight police like to poke their noses in where they weren't asked. But, its all good.

Thanks guys. B&W's are heavy units to move around. I know some disassemble I see a lot of trucks with them and they are expensive. I do like their campanion slider with the factory puck turn and twist.

I do like auto slides. Not much of a fan of super glide do to the capture plate. Thats why Im leaning toward a demco.

Never heard of Anderson. The goose neck attachments I never understood why people use them. There seems to be a lot of torque from the fwd and back motion from stopping and accelerating.

I didnt look at the front cap if it has radius corners or not. Something to look at during pdi.
Edit: there is some radius to the cap.

Curt is another slider Im looking at.

Reese on their site shows an auto slide but no info.

Do some research on the Andersen. Its not a GN in the typical sense. It does NOT put additional stresses on the trailer like your speaking of with a traditional GN

Its been one of the most popular/fastest growing hitch the last couple years.

Actually, the Andersen can damage your pin box, as I learned the hard way. Seems Andersen knows about it as they've built shims to prevent it but they play dumb, blame the pin box, and develop communication issues if you do have problems. I really wish I had gone with the B&W in the first place. Much better hitch, albeit a real pain in the back to move around.

Do tell more.

Initial Hitch issue Post

Follow up posting

Again, the Pin Box was a Lippert 1621HD. Like all Lippert products, leaves a lot to be desired but it is one of the most used pin boxes on medium sized 5ers in the 16K GVWR group. I've seen several that had similar issues since I've started looking. Having only talked to one of the owners I saw with dimpled pin boxes only thing I saw we had in common was Weight, and lots steep mountain roads. Not the gentle gentle freeway sort of mountain, but hwy type with switchbacks

In the end, the failure has resulted in my upgrading to an Air Suspension pin box and much better hitch which should be a considerably better match to the higher road use I intend to start putting on the rig upon my retirement in a couple months.