Has this ever happened to you?
A couple of years ago I took a family trip and was towing my car behind my Class C motorhome. I made a wrong turn in a subdivision when taking a relative home, and knowing that you cannot back up whil...
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dons2346 wrote:dieharder wrote:
Any time you have pressure on those pins, you're going to have to pound the bejaysus out of them to get them out. Depending on why/how there is pressure on the pins, it may be easy or difficult to relieve the pressure. Hell, even some times when I'm getting back home and on a straightaway I have to pull out the rubber mallet and give it a couple of whacks to get them out.
For situation like you describe, I would get the quick connect/disconnect:
http://www.etrailer.com/Accessories-and-Parts/Roadmaster/RM-222.html
Totally wrong. There is no reason to take a hammer to the towbar..ever. If you have an assistant, use them to slowly turn the steering wheel of the toad one way and then the other. At some point, the bar will relax and you can remove a pin. Repeat the process and you can remove the other
"Totally wrong" seems a bit strong. Moving the steering wheel side to side will have little or no effect if the towed vehicle is downhill from the MH, even if chocked.
In an ideal world a hammer should not be necessary, but sometimes there is a side slope, not enough length to align the vehicles properly, or front to back slope beyond the capabilities of the all-terrain tow bar. Many of the situations described in this thread are in less than ideal conditions.
