medium size disaster yesterday-could have been worse though

OCDUNE · #1 03-23-2009, 01:19 PM

Coming back from Glamis, in a caravan with my Dad and brother, my Dad had his superglide hitch fail and drop his 37 toy hauler in the parking lot of a gas station. Surprisingly there wasn't too much damage to either the truck or trailer. I will have some pictures up shortly showing the truck and trailer and the associated damage.

It took us a while to get the trailer raised up, the elec jacks wouldn't move but we were able to get it to go up manually. The pin had sheared off on the slave jack though right where the rod turns it so we had to use a bottle jack off of the truck to raise the other end.

The other hurdle was the capture plate that the pin box had welded on, we didn't have another trailer with a superglide, we ended up finding a good samaritan who brought us a grinder to cut the capture plate off. I was able to move the trailer to the side with my truck until we could get another truck to haul it home.

This could have been worse however had the hitch failed going down the road.

I'll have pictures shortly showing the trailer on its belly and the damage to the hitch, truck and trailer.

I won't speculate in public on why the hitch failed yet.

blksmok · #2 03-23-2009, 01:53 PM

Glad no-one was hurt!

Interested to hear more on this along with pictures. I had a superglide, so I'm very familiar with the locking mechanisms etc, and can't see how one would fail when properly hooked up... I'll be interested to hear more.

James Hess · #3 03-23-2009, 01:55 PM

i would definatly be contacting the company if it turns out to be a failure of the hitch due to manufacturing

TheHoov · #4 03-23-2009, 04:11 PM

This happened to my friends pull trailer a while back. It poped right off the ball. I think his dad forgot to lock it but it was also in a parking lot.

Post pics as soon as you can!
Thankfull no one was hurt...

OCDUNE · #5 03-23-2009, 04:13 PM

will do, I made sure to take about a dozen pictures as it sat but the nearest camera belonged to my parents so I have to wait for them to email me the pictures.

OCDUNE · #6 03-23-2009, 04:32 PM

Here is two for now, the first shows the truck bed where the trailer hit. You can't tell without looking that something even fell on it. He has bedcaps and a rail that holds his hard tonneau cover, they must have provided enough extra strength to soften the blow. His tailgate is U-Shaped though

blksmok · #7 03-23-2009, 05:23 PM

Man, that second picture is sickening.

hondarider552 · #8 03-23-2009, 05:49 PM

i have a superglide, and it looks like the inner rails of it arent greased. superglide told me thats the number one failure point on them.

OCDUNE · #9 03-23-2009, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by hondarider552

i have a superglide, and it looks like the inner rails of it arent greased. superglide told me thats the number one failure point on them.

I am curious what exactly fails when that happens, is it the slide rails that bind up? This had been greased at the beginning of the trip, the only concern about the grease is that Sat/Sunday had nasty windstorm with blowing sand/dust. If I was a superglide owner I wouldn't be too concerned about this yet, hopefully I'll have more info shortly.

rgullett83 · #10 03-23-2009, 07:46 PM

Wow glad that happened in a parking lot and going down the road.