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<blockquote data-quote="olroadbeech" data-source="post: 3604617" data-attributes="member: 52145">I had to lock up my pin puller since they go missing so easily.there are all kinds of other tricks. sometimes the pin won&#039;t pull because there is too much weight on 5th wheel and you have to raise trailer a little bit more. sometimes you have to drive a little bit forward or backward and find a flatter spot. especially true in dirt. and sometimes it&#039;s just a fifth wheel that is dirty and clogged up with dirt. this happens from the sand they throw on the roads in winter. whenever i had a problem with a fifth wheel locking mechanism it was straight to the shop .&nbsp; but usually this doesn&#039;t happen all at once. you are given some warning that there is a problem. I hated driving other drivers&#039; tractors because some would just let things go. You would tell them about a problem you had and they would say &quot;Oh, ya , I knew about that but don&#039;t have time to fix it.&quot;Then they would get pissed off if you wrote things up and the mechanic red-tagged it to repair .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="olroadbeech, post: 3604617, member: 52145"] I had to lock up my pin puller since they go missing so easily. there are all kinds of other tricks. sometimes the pin won't pull because there is too much weight on 5th wheel and you have to raise trailer a little bit more. sometimes you have to drive a little bit forward or backward and find a flatter spot. especially true in dirt. and sometimes it's just a fifth wheel that is dirty and clogged up with dirt. this happens from the sand they throw on the roads in winter. whenever i had a problem with a fifth wheel locking mechanism it was straight to the shop . but usually this doesn't happen all at once. you are given some warning that there is a problem. I hated driving other drivers' tractors because some would just let things go. You would tell them about a problem you had and they would say "Oh, ya , I knew about that but don't have time to fix it." Then they would get pissed off if you wrote things up and the mechanic red-tagged it to repair . [/QUOTE]

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