OCBINVA wrote:Picked up a very old UHAUL trailer for a tiny camper project. It has the old style adjustable hitch that is bolted to the frame. Anyone got experience with these? It works fine but I am debating of removing and welding on a standard 2".
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I have allot of experience with those hitches. Had a fleet of sailboats many of them Hobe 14' cats as well as a few hunters and macgreggors and odd boats for the Explorer post. Those hitches were extremely dangerous. They are very difficult to make sure they were on tight and they will loosen. Keep a pipe wrench handy to tighten it and use a bungee cord pulling on the corner of the nut to keep it from loosening while driving. The threads and pieces rust and cause it to catch and not tighten well etc.
We had several instances of them loosening while driving and one got so loose it came off at the boat ramp. I replaced all of them with modern conventional hitches not just for safety but some of them were 1 7/8 hitches which was a real nuissance.
That hitch was the cheapest hitch available years ago and they phased it out because of the safety issues. Any hitch you buy today will be much much safer and easier to use.
In fact just a few weeks ago I pulled into Home Depot and had to drive around a trailer that was sitting in the entryway. It had that hitch and no chains... It was just sitting there... I could have hitched up that trailer and taken it home then just gotten a home built trailer tag for it but no I'm not like that I rolled it out of the way and into a parking spot. It was gone when I came back out and I assume the owner finally realized he lost his trailer and got it.
Will post a pic when the app will let me....
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