Francesca Knowles wrote:Huntindog wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:Huntindog wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
A trailer can go quite a ways before it jolts off the ball, especially if you've got weight distribution and/or sway bars hooked up too.
If WD is hooked up it is impossible for the hitch to come off the ball.
Try this for yourself to see.
Hookup everything. The unlatch the hitch. Now use the tongue jack to try to lift it off the ball.
It can't be done.
As for W/D being some kind of protectant against decoupling, I call bushwa. The system has plenty to do without having to retain the ball on the coupler to boot. I said that it would likely delay a decoupling, but it certainly can't be depended upon to prevent such an event. There are tremendous forces involved, and W/D add-ons are not designed to take up the work of the coupler as well as their own.
It is not "impossible" for decoupling to occur in the presence of a W/D system.
It's NO bushwa. Why don't you do as I suggested and try it to see for yourself? Then report back your findings.:B
Your suggestion is to conduct a "test" while parked. It doesn't account for the tremendous forces/variables of travel. To presume that W/D is some sort of fallback guarantee that at highway speeds and on all roads a coupler will stay on the ball even if unlatched is ridiculous.
But certainly you bring up an important point:
Truehitch of coupler-to-ball should be checked for BEFORE hooking up WD and/or sway control.
BurbMan wrote:
The OP is simply asking if anyone else has had the same problem with a defective coupler on a Keystone trailer. The guy says he is an RV delivery dude, so he knows how to hook up a TT and no they don't use WD on deliveries.
There is no need to be so judgmental about his negligence, etc. Not like this guy is a newbie towing his shiny new TT off the lot for the first time.
soren wrote:
Well hopefully the OP has learned a valuable lesson here? That being to never again waste time suffering the vengeful wrath of clueless internet experts......
Anddrew15 wrote:
That's it.. just looking if anybody else has had this happen recently that's it.. I know how or y this could happen don't need that..thanks
Huntindog wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:Huntindog wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:
A trailer can go quite a ways before it jolts off the ball, especially if you've got weight distribution and/or sway bars hooked up too.
If WD is hooked up it is impossible for the hitch to come off the ball.
Try this for yourself to see.
Hookup everything. The unlatch the hitch. Now use the tongue jack to try to lift it off the ball.
It can't be done.
As for W/D being some kind of protectant against decoupling, I call bushwa. The system has plenty to do without having to retain the ball on the coupler to boot. I said that it would likely delay a decoupling, but it certainly can't be depended upon to prevent such an event. There are tremendous forces involved, and W/D add-ons are not designed to take up the work of the coupler as well as their own.
It is not "impossible" for decoupling to occur in the presence of a W/D system.
It's NO bushwa. Why don't you do as I suggested and try it to see for yourself? Then report back your findings.:B
Anddrew15 wrote:
I have transported rv's for almost 2 years now I have well over 200,000 miles loaded not 1 problem a few weeks ago I had a keystone hideout TT come off my bumper WHEN I WAS DRIVING even thou everything was hooked up properly the pin was still in the tong lock after
HAS ANBODY ELSE HAVE THIS HAPPEN TO THEM PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP THANKS
Francesca Knowles wrote:Huntindog wrote:Francesca Knowles wrote:Anddrew15 wrote:
if it was a false hitch I would have thought it would come off sooner than it did
Not necessarily. False hitch often "looks" true...coupler can appear to be almost all the way down on the ball, it's just not latched. A trailer can go quite a ways before it jolts off the ball, especially if you've got weight distribution and/or sway bars hooked up too.
If WD is hooked up it is impossible for the hitch to come off the ball.
Try this for yourself to see.
Hookup everything. The unlatch the hitch. Now use the tongue jack to try to lift it off the ball.
It can't be done.
You missed the point of my response- I addressed the O.P.'s proposed scenario, wherein I was some towing virgin picking up a trailer at the factory, and they did all the work including hitching up. In that case, assuming the dealer was unprotective of his own interests enough to do the "hitching" to someone else's vehicle, he'd be responsible for any "false hitch" (which I believe is most likely what happened here).
That was obviously not the O.P.'s scenario- he's supposed to be a professional and as such will presumably bear responsibility for any failures of vigilance that may have lead to WHATEVER happened. The details of which we continue ignorant of.
For myself, I permit no one but me to hitch a trailer to my tug. I want to be assured that everything is done as it should be, and all steps taken including jacking to test the integrity of the hookup.
As for W/D being some kind of protectant against decoupling, I call bushwa. The system has plenty to do without having to retain the ball on the coupler to boot. I said that it would likely delay a decoupling, but it certainly can't be depended upon to prevent such an event. There are tremendous forces involved, and W/D add-ons are not designed to take up the work of the coupler as well as their own.
It is not "impossible" for decoupling to occur in the presence of a W/D system.
