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Originally Posted by Brad&Tam
Hello all
Ended up getting the slider hitch and works well. Wouldn't buy unless 100% necessary though. Hitching up is a little tricky.
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Which brand did you end up getting? Pullrite or Demco?
I have a Pullrite, and have more issues unhooking than hooking up. The key to unhooking is to get things set, and then put the truck in reverse to unload the latching mechanism.
On a side note, on our last 5er, I constantly had issues unhooking, even after the reverse trick, and at times, had an issue hooking up as well. In fact a couple of times, used the front jacks to ultimately get the hitch plate off. What I finally discovered was that the kingpin was actually not perpendicular to the base plate, and that was putting everything in a bind. I took that pinbox off, and replaced the kingpin, and after that, all of the issues hooking/unhooking went away.
The Pullrite hitch seems to be sensitive to the kingpin being correct...