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Okay. Long story short(er):
I ended up disassembling the whole receiver. If the latch is a
two-pronged fork, at the belly of the "Y" was a blob of...weld spatter?
Or just a bad casting. A blob of metal sticking up. Anyway, the latch
would start to close on the ball then that blob would hit the ball and
it couldn't close.
I disassembled it entirely with an eye towards just manually putting the
latch under the ball then screwing it shut. It wouldn't screw shut.
There's a spring and it's hard to do, but it was stopped entirely.
Hanging upside down, in the rain and dirt, with my face right under a
precariously-supported trailer tongue is stupid even to me so I took the
whole hitch receiver off the trailer and disassembled. The blob was on
the top-ish part of the latch where I couldn't see it through the rain,
the fog on my glasses, and the frustration.
Removed the blob, re-assembled the whole thing. It works now. I sould
probably go as H-F for a new latch. I bet the missing chrome there is
going to rust.
I want to bash it with a hammer anyway. This whole thing is starting to
sour me on H-F.
There's no ground spot for the wiring as the instructions. No sweat,
I'll ground it to the clean metal of the receiver. The wiring plug
doesn't fit my truck--it's a male plug, but it's got the 'female' rubber
surrounding it. Circumcised plug--lights do not light. This is not a
complex wiring system. And I hate electrical troubleshooting so I think
I'm off to the store to buy a spool of wire and a new hitch plug and
I'll just re-wire the whole thing myself.
On 10/2/2018 10:23 AM, Randall wrote:
> I agree.
>
> Lift or jack it up off the ball and make sure the latch piece inside
> the trailer receiver is all the way down. Then move the tow vehicle
> forward by 1/2" or so, such that the ball rubs on the front of the
> receiver as you lower it back onto the ball.
> -- Randall
>
> On 2 October 2018 10:07:31 GMT-04:00, Jeff Scarbrough
> <fishplate@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you already fit the ball to the tongue, then it has to be the
> latch piece is hung.
>
> I'm going to go take a shower now...
>
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<p>Okay. Long story short(er):</p>
<p>I ended up disassembling the whole receiver. If the latch is a
two-pronged fork, at the belly of the "Y" was a blob of...weld
spatter? Or just a bad casting. A blob of metal sticking up.
Anyway, the latch would start to close on the ball then that blob
would hit the ball and it couldn't close.</p>
<p>I disassembled it entirely with an eye towards just manually
putting the latch under the ball then screwing it shut. It
wouldn't screw shut. There's a spring and it's hard to do, but it
was stopped entirely. Hanging upside down, in the rain and dirt,
with my face right under a precariously-supported trailer tongue
is stupid even to me so I took the whole hitch receiver off the
trailer and disassembled. The blob was on the top-ish part of the
latch where I couldn't see it through the rain, the fog on my
glasses, and the frustration.<br>
</p>
<p>Removed the blob, re-assembled the whole thing. It works now. I
sould probably go as H-F for a new latch. I bet the missing chrome
there is going to rust.<br>
</p>
<p>I want to bash it with a hammer anyway. This whole thing is
starting to sour me on H-F.<br>
</p>
<p>There's no ground spot for the wiring as the instructions. No
sweat, I'll ground it to the clean metal of the receiver. The
wiring plug doesn't fit my truck--it's a male plug, but it's got
the 'female' rubber surrounding it. Circumcised plug--lights do
not light. This is not a complex wiring system. And I hate
electrical troubleshooting so I think I'm off to the store to buy
a spool of wire and a new hitch plug and I'll just re-wire the
whole thing myself.<br>
</p>
<br>
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I agree. <br>
<br>
Lift or jack it up off the ball and make sure the latch piece
inside the trailer receiver is all the way down. Then move the tow
vehicle forward by 1/2" or so, such that the ball rubs on the
front of the receiver as you lower it back onto the ball.<br>
-- Randall<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2 October 2018 10:07:31 GMT-04:00,
Jeff Scarbrough <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:fishplate@gmail.com";><fishplate@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<div dir="auto">If you already fit the ball to the tongue,
then it has to be the latch piece is hung.
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<div dir="auto">I'm going to go take a shower now...<br>
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