Had a mounting bolt failure on my Equal-i-zer hitch
I took a trip out to Anza Borrego desert this weekend and all went well. I pulled up to the house and walked back to the tongue to unhitch. That's when I saw that a mounting bolt had broken in the hitch.
Here's a picture of what the hitch mounting normally looks like.
And a picture of what I saw when I went to unhitch.
Upon closer inspection I can see that the bolt had been failing for quite some time now and one of the plates is bent.
My guess is that I must have over tightened it over time. But as you can see in the first picture the mounting has been known to walk around on the tongue. Over that last 15 years I have repositioned the mounting and painted the frame a few times. The funny thing is just last week I was considering welding the hitch plate to the frame to stop it from walking around which would have probably prevented this.
I did reach out to Progress mfg about the broken bolt and bent hanger plate to see if they might want them returned. Being Sunday afternoon I don't expect a reply for a day or to though.
Here's a picture of what the hitch mounting normally looks like.
And a picture of what I saw when I went to unhitch.
Upon closer inspection I can see that the bolt had been failing for quite some time now and one of the plates is bent.
My guess is that I must have over tightened it over time. But as you can see in the first picture the mounting has been known to walk around on the tongue. Over that last 15 years I have repositioned the mounting and painted the frame a few times. The funny thing is just last week I was considering welding the hitch plate to the frame to stop it from walking around which would have probably prevented this.
I did reach out to Progress mfg about the broken bolt and bent hanger plate to see if they might want them returned. Being Sunday afternoon I don't expect a reply for a day or to though.
