Imagine you’ve driven several hundred miles to your destination. You’ve been in your truck for hours and finally arrive at your campground. After several attempts and some slight adjustments, you’ve positioned your fifth wheel on the campsite. Everything is perfect.
You add wheel chocks to hold your fifth wheel in place, lower your landing legs, disconnect from your fifth wheel trailer hitch, and extend your slides. You set up your camping chairs around the firepit and start prepping dinner. That’s when you realize you’re out of cooking oil and need to make a store run. Or maybe you just need drinks or sides to go with dinner.
You double-check that the cables are disconnected between your truck and fifth wheel…all good there. So you hop in your truck, shift into drive, start to pull away, and then CRACK! What mistake did you make?
Ny valiny: adinonao ny nampidina ny vavahady! As a result, your fifth wheel pin box dented your tailgate.
Take a second to compose yourself—this isn’t the first time this has happened to a kodia fahadimy owner, but our mission is to ensure we’re closer to it being the last. That’s why we’re raising tailgate awareness for the sake of fifth wheel hitches and owners everywhere.
Voalohany indrindra, tokony hapetrakao ny kodiaranao, esory ny fifandraisanao amin'ny boaty pin-nao, ary esory tsara ny kamiao. TALOHAN'NY leveling and stabilizing your coach. So you shouldn’t start with dinner or other camp chores before completing the disconnection process.
Ireo tompona kodiaran-droa vaovao rehetra dia afaka mahazo tombony amin'ny fanarahana ny lisitry ny fanamarinana voasoratra sy voalamina rehefa mampifandray sy manaisotra ny fitaovanany. Aza manandrana mitadidy ireo dingana kely rehetra miditra amin'ity dingana ity, fa ataovy azo antoka ny lisitrao ary jereo rehefa mandeha ianao.
A simple solution is removing your regular tailgate during the camping season. But there are pros and cons to this approach. While you’ll avoid this hitch mistake, the downside of this approach is the inability to store any extra camping gear in your truck bed between destinations.
Ianao dia afaka soloy a kodia fahadimy tailgate ho vahaolana tsara kokoa. Ity fomba tailgate ity dia misy tsipika miendrika V eo afovoany, manome fahafahana fanampiny ho an'ny boaty pin-nao.
Before you take your new 5th wheel on its maiden voyage, download or print and laminate this hitch checklist for reference:
Jereo ny horonan-tsary etsy ambany raha te hahalala misimisy kokoa momba ny fomba mampifandray sy manapaka ny kodiarana fahadimy.
It’s important that your trailer is level while in tow. If not, you are susceptible to issues like increased trailer sway, excessive chucking/jarring, poor fuel economy, and much more.
To start, level the trailer using the landing gear and measure the distance from the ground to the bottom of the skid plate on the pin box. Next, measure the distance from the ground to the top of the hitch head on the fifth wheel hitch in your truck bed. If these two measurements don’t match, you’ll need to make some adjustments.
Mba hanamafisana ny tranofiara dia manana safidy vitsivitsy ianao. Ny safidy voalohany dia ny manitsy ny haavon'ny lohan'ny fanerena amin'ny kodiarana fahadimy. Saika ny kodiaran-kodiarana fahadimy rehetra dia manana lohan-tsofina azo amboarina mba hahafahanao mampiakatra ny tranofiarao.
To change the hitch head height, you’ll need to consult the owner’s manual of your hitch. Izany hoe, ny ankamaroany dia mitaky ny fanesorana sy ny fametrahana ny bolt amin'ny lavaka hafa eo amin'ny fotony.
Raha mbola tsy nivezivezy ny tranofiara na dia efa vita aza ny fanitsiana ny haavon'ny lohan-doha, dia azonao atao ny manitsy ny haavon'ny boaty pin. Izany dia atao amin'ny alàlan'ny fanesorana ireo bolt izay miaro ny boaty pin amin'ny frame ary mametraka indray ireo bolt ireo amin'ny lavaka hafa (miakatra na midina), raha azo atao.
Raha mila fanitsiana fanampiny ianao dia tsy maintsy mampiakatra na mampidina ny tranofiara mifanaraka amin'izany. Izany dia azo atao amin'ny alàlan'ny blocs manandratra, kitapo famaky axle, na fanantonana lohataona ravina vaovao. Amin'ny ankapobeny, tokony hanana elanelana enina santimetatra fara-fahakeliny eo anelanelan'ny lalamby fandrianao amin'ny kamiao sy ny ilany ambany amin'ny fijanonan'ny kodiarana fahadimy ianao.
Fametrahana a kodia fahadimy hitch is not something you should take lightly. There is an enormous safety concern if not done correctly, but you can also cause damage to your vehicle. In most cases, you’ll drill into the bed and/or frame to install a hitch. If not done properly, you risk unnecessary holes that can compromise the frame’s integrity.