8,000# hitch on new E-450 Chassis
It has recently come to my attention that all new Thor Motorhomes on the E-450 chassis built after 10/01/2014 come equipped standard with an 8,000 pound receiver hitch instead of the 5,000 pound hitch...
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LSVLance wrote:
That Anderson hitch looks pretty interesting, looks like you have to make sure you back up to the trailer at the same angle you did when you dropped it off though or it becomes a pain in the butt to straighten the triangle plate.
There's a couple workarounds: use a mallet to smack the bottom of the hitch to loosen the grip of the friction cone, so you can spin it by hand. Or... Hook up the loose chain first, pull forward to snug up the loose chain, then hook up the other side.
Note: there's another problem that may actually a bigger concern... It loads the pawl in the coupler, and some coupler designs don't like this. Anderson has a list of incompatible couplers.
