Changable hitch

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Originally Posted by DiscoStew

I have an orac off-road hitch at the moment and they are a bit of a pain when you are not on level ground with a straight-line approach. Fine when you are in a caravan park but annoying when you want to get just the right spot near some trees.

I was thinking of changing back to a standard tow-ball but occasionally I will want the off-road capability so I was wondering if I could have set it up so the hitch itself was removable and then just bolt on the appropriate hitch for the trip.

Any opinions?

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Here ya go, all the hitchs you may need.
couplings

Baz.

I started with a TREG and then changed to the Queeensland Components ORAC type one purely to get a bit more clearance and still be able to drop the tailgate on my RRC.
I was able to flip my tongue so that it was on the top of the square tube rather than under with the TREG.
I think both are equally difficult to hitch, which is not very. The secret is that you make sure that you have a pin hole in the square tube tongue at where it bottoms inwards. You then can hitch up with the pin out and back onto the coupling, then fit the pin.
The TREG has to be sideways in line while the ORAC has to be at the correct height and can be within a few inches sideways as long as the hitch receiver pin is out.
I have unhitched mine under load and although taking a bit of muscle it is quite possible to yank the poly bush pin out of the coupling.
NOTE that there are two pins spoken of here.
1 is the one that is on the car and goes through the receiver and square tube.
2 is the pin which either goes through the Treg poly block or the ORAC poly bush.
Regards Philip A

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Originally Posted by Utemad

Why not look into a Hyland coupling? Best of both worlds but expensive and there are lots of rumoured issues floating around.

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hyland are fine IF you have a fairly light ball weight. tho at any weight they can wear at the edges of the cup as the float and can bind which can cause the ball to undo and leave the towbar.. the design really requires an extended shank tow ball so that limits you to 2 tonne loading. seen way to many fitted incorrectly and have seen too many damaged units to even consider using one of them myself..

that said, heaps of people love em...

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Originally Posted by incisor

hyland are fine IF you have a fairly light ball weight. tho at any weight they can wear at the edges of the cup as the float and can bind which can cause the ball to undo and leave the towbar.. the design really requires an extended shank tow ball so that limits you to 2 tonne loading. seen way to many fitted incorrectly and have seen too many damaged units to even consider using one of them myself..

that said, heaps of people love em...

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Thanks, I read through one of your threads on this topic and, even though the ball weight is only 130kg and the trailer is probably only around 1 tonne, it turned me off the hyland.