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Reciever hitch jammed
- Thread starter euzoa
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euzoa
1/2 ton status
Now i just need a shackle mount hitch...
Life lesson...don't leave the tongue in the hitch unless you are using it at the time. ESPECIALLY in the saltbelt.
Mine go right back inside the truck where I keep them as soon as I'm done with them.
Mine go right back inside the truck where I keep them as soon as I'm done with them.
That's my big reason for taking them out....did that when I was 18, and have been removing them ever since.
I've seen a few guys leave them in all winter, and when I tell em about it getting rusted in there..."oh I only use the one ball, so I just leave it in there" Yeah, and I bet your the one who's trailer lights don't work either.
Yep, hope the next guy has fun with it.
euzoa
1/2 ton status
It was in when I bought her, I'm short so I had been using it as a sort of step so I could get to my tools without puting down the tailgate. I really didn't like landing on it though, I will get a pic of how much I scraped off today
One day when I was walking thru a favorite salvage yard,I came upon the owner ,who was driving the forkloader--he said "Hey,I'm looking for a trailer hitch ball mount for a receiver hitch for my camper--seen any in your travels??.....I said "yeah,in fact I was hoping to find a receiver hitch for my 82 GMC here--the two like new ones I had given to me were too wide,they were for 88 and newer trucks..I told him I saw a ball mount on a Ford Econoline not far away,and he told me to hop in the cab of the loader and show him where it was..
We came up to the van,and I hopped off the lodaer and put a thick chain onto the ball mount--he back up,the van was just dragged backwards..he tugged on it several times,each time a bit harder than before..still refused to budge...it had a pin in it,that I removed easily after the first tug,but that thing refused to budge!..not to be defeated,the guy lifts the forks up and the back of the van came 5 feet off the ground,and he lutches the lodaer backwards..and keeps raising the forks higher,to no avail--finally,the van is completely suspended off the ground,dangling nose down ,haning by the chain!..he uses the hydraulics to "jiggle" the van up and down until the loaders rear tires started bouncing off the ground!...finally he says "F" this thing!--there HAS to be another one in here somewhere!..and we go search for another one out of the 1000's of vehicles there...didn't see ant ball mounts but lots of receivers!...
As I was walking out of the junkyard headed home,I saw a receiver hitch lying in a trucks bed right near the gate--with a ball mount!..the owner was just driving up with the loader to go close the gate,and I pointed it out to him--he walks over to it and says "hmmmph!--probably never get this one loose either!--and he pulls the pin out,and it came out with his bare hands!..
...I lucked out too,the hitch measured up to be the width I needed,and he said "just TAKE it!--you helped me enough today--if you want that ball mount off the van,come back in the morning...
I climbed under the van the next day (in the rain!) and the ball mount was able to be wiggled around in the receiver tube some--about ten good whacks with a 5 lb ball pein hammer and it came flying out like a bullet!...
I nearly busted both my shins on a trailer ball mount before,and I also had one stolen while my truck was parked at Walmart--so I dont leave them in if I'm not towing --and I grease the snot out of them when I do put them in the hitch..I tow something about once every 5-10 years,but like having a hitch--"just in case"...never know when you'll need to haul something or if you might get a free trailer,etc..
We came up to the van,and I hopped off the lodaer and put a thick chain onto the ball mount--he back up,the van was just dragged backwards..he tugged on it several times,each time a bit harder than before..still refused to budge...it had a pin in it,that I removed easily after the first tug,but that thing refused to budge!..not to be defeated,the guy lifts the forks up and the back of the van came 5 feet off the ground,and he lutches the lodaer backwards..and keeps raising the forks higher,to no avail--finally,the van is completely suspended off the ground,dangling nose down ,haning by the chain!..he uses the hydraulics to "jiggle" the van up and down until the loaders rear tires started bouncing off the ground!...finally he says "F" this thing!--there HAS to be another one in here somewhere!..and we go search for another one out of the 1000's of vehicles there...didn't see ant ball mounts but lots of receivers!...
As I was walking out of the junkyard headed home,I saw a receiver hitch lying in a trucks bed right near the gate--with a ball mount!..the owner was just driving up with the loader to go close the gate,and I pointed it out to him--he walks over to it and says "hmmmph!--probably never get this one loose either!--and he pulls the pin out,and it came out with his bare hands!..
...I lucked out too,the hitch measured up to be the width I needed,and he said "just TAKE it!--you helped me enough today--if you want that ball mount off the van,come back in the morning...I climbed under the van the next day (in the rain!) and the ball mount was able to be wiggled around in the receiver tube some--about ten good whacks with a 5 lb ball pein hammer and it came flying out like a bullet!...
I nearly busted both my shins on a trailer ball mount before,and I also had one stolen while my truck was parked at Walmart--so I dont leave them in if I'm not towing --and I grease the snot out of them when I do put them in the hitch..I tow something about once every 5-10 years,but like having a hitch--"just in case"...never know when you'll need to haul something or if you might get a free trailer,etc..
Very true. Done that a few times myself.
Worse is the shorter you are, the taller the truck is, and the larger the device sticking out of the hitch is the greater the odds are that you'll whack your knees or further north on them.
When I was in the Marines we had two Chevy C3500 crewcabs and each had a large pintle hitch permanently mounted behind the rear bumper. Stuck out quite a bit and they were rather large.
Guy on my work crew had a birthday and his wife and her friend brought a cake for him and us to eat at work. We picked them up and took them out to the shop. Ate cake, slacked off, etc. When the cake was done and it was time for them to go back to the parking lot it had gotten dark. I hopped in one of the trucks and he and the ladies were heading for it...
...when his wife walked smack into that pintle so hard she actually fell over it.
Some nasty scratches and bruises, a bit of bleeding, and she was limping for weeks.
euzoa
1/2 ton status
You can see where it was rusted in. And where i lost about a quarter inch by dragging the ball
For all of you who have tried and failed to get a hitch out before, you were doing it wrong.
Its easy to get one out, no matter how stuck it might be.
Just take the pin out, attach a trailer with something really valuable to the hitch and start across town with no safety chains.
You won't get three blocks.................
The trick is, whatever you have in the trailer has to be valuable, delicate, and non-replaceable.
Its easy to get one out, no matter how stuck it might be.
Just take the pin out, attach a trailer with something really valuable to the hitch and start across town with no safety chains.
You won't get three blocks.................
The trick is, whatever you have in the trailer has to be valuable, delicate, and non-replaceable.
Damn. That's not potmetal either!
wasted wages
1 ton status
DAMMIT !!!!! I was just going to write that.....
you are correct.....it would fall right out then.....
