Thread: AT35 Hitch what a #####!

Use a pintle hook and lunette and near enough is good enough and drop the lunette over the hook.......easy.
The army worked it out years ago

loved my at35 and i miss it dearly....

secret of success is line it up :P

or

do as i did when feeling lazy and remove the whole hitch from the receiver.

I have a Queensland Caravan Accesories which is similar. I also have bought a reversing camera.LOL One trick I learned is to drill another hole in the square tongue that goes into the receiver when it is fully home. I can then back up to the trailer and pull the pin on the car, connect the hitch pin and then reverse/ or let the car run onto the trailer until it clunks home, then replace the receiver pin. It helps in difficult situations particularly on slopes. Regards Philip A

X 2 pintle hook easy to use and very hard to over load bit noisy though, but unbreakable

I love my AT35, and the wife and I are still harmoniously attached, rather like my CYT camper to my Rangie

Seriously, yes on some angles it can be difficult, but better than some others I can tell you

JC

Originally Posted by THE BOOGER

X 2 pintle hook easy to use and very hard to over load bit noisy though, but unbreakable

X 3. To stop the noise, just put in a doubled over plumber's rubber O ring (like they used to use with terracotta pipes) on top of the trailer ring before you close the hook. There is no longer play in the coupling so no noise!

When on un even ground, put a base plate of some kind on the ground under the jockey wheel. Nice size rectangular piece of timber is good. Wind down the jockey wheel so as the wheel is sideways to the trailer.
Wind it down enough to take load off the hitch, this will make it easy to take out the pin. When hooking back up, reverse along side the hitch and move your trailer sideways(as the jockey wheel was lowered sideways), and hook it up that way. Hence also the rectangular shape of timber under the jockey wheel, it will allow you to manouvre sideways with out fallinf off the edge of the base plate.

Hope that helps

Are they similar to the Tregg hitch???
Find my Tregg hitch easy to connect.
I will be getting a better jockey wheel.It is at its limit height wise and always is soft.Should make it even easier.
Andrew