Trailer Hitch Question 9-4 8:30am

SeaDawg · Sep-04-2006, 09:26 AM

Any experts out there got more of a clue than I do, please call me. I can't get the "latch" to lock shut when hooking the trailer to my truck, I am working on it as you read this if it is still the morning of the 4th

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Bottom Line · Sep-04-2006, 09:56 AM

Are you sure the mechanism isn't compressed under the ball? I always let the trailer slide onto the ball - never have the trailer directly over the ball but about a 1/2" away and let the trailer come forward as you're dropping it onto the ball. Oh yeah, lube everything too...

Albiebac · Sep-04-2006, 09:58 AM

Try this. With the tongue/hitch on the ball, pull your truck forward just a bit, should drop the latch......if that's what you're talking about.

**Saluki** · Sep-04-2006, 09:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Albiebac

Try this. With the tongue/hitch on the ball, pull your truck forward just a bit, should drop the latch......if that's what you're talking about.

Ditto

Jan from Humbol · Sep-04-2006, 10:12 AM

The latch is adjustable via a nut underneath the latch...But I must ask this question, have you hitched up this before?

The reason I'm asking is I tried to put a 1 7/8" hitch on a 2" ball one time just didn't quite work for me.

You could have a 2" plus ball and a 2" hitch.

SeaDawg · Sep-04-2006, 10:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Albiebac

Try this. With the tongue/hitch on the ball, pull your truck forward just a bit, should drop the latch......if that's what you're talking about.

Thanks for all the comebacks, I am going to start taking it apart right now. I have tried all those suggestions and yes I have had it hooked correctly before aka correct ball/hitch combo. I am think probably a little adjustment/lube should do it.

Thanks again

**Saluki** · Sep-04-2006, 10:18 AM

Fucking boats.

Good Luck Harry.

Double Z · Sep-04-2006, 11:29 AM

I grease the hitch and also hit any possible rust spot or moving parts with the blue CorrosionX. My brakes work better and so far it seems to keep the leaf springs from getting bad.

aguachico · Sep-04-2006, 12:00 PM

When I first brought my trailer home. I couldn't get the latch to go DOWN. I tried everything. I called friends. Rubber mallet. WD49. No bueno. I eventually unbolted the ball from the hitch.

Then I pulled the lock forward instead of backwards and the ball hit the ground!!!

SeaDawg · Sep-04-2006, 12:22 PM

Thanks for all the input, I tore it apart, corroded beyond repair as far as I'm concerned, gonna replace the whole unit

Thanks for all the advise.

gecsr1 · Sep-04-2006, 01:01 PM

sometimes you just need a BFH........

Albiebac · Sep-04-2006, 03:09 PM

Harry,
Well, I guess we're neighbors. Saw the carnage as my wife and I walked up to Kragen. Nice to put a name to a boat.
Looks all to familiar. Breaks are "fun"..........

Did two trailers in the last month.

-Eric (Albiebac II)