Goose neck Locks...
Submitted: Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 21:14
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Mr Fawlty
A mate of
mine has a Hayman Reese tow bar with the goosneck neck part held into the bar with a lock arrangement that has the cylindrical key with plastic dust cap in the end, that replaces the bar & cotter pin supplied as standard - all know the type? Ok so he is pulling away the other day and there is a clatter and bump from the rear and he discovers that the locking bar has sheared off allowing the draw bar to slide out of the Towbar... I promptly checked
mine and there are no signs of wear apart from some surface rust coming through the cheap chrome. His looks like it missed out on heat treatment as it can be clearly seen how the bar has been gradually rotated and chewed through by the guilotene action of the two parts when under load... He bought his from super cheap,
mine came as a gift so I have no idea where it came from, maybe "towbar lock factory No6" in China. Maybe worth checking if you use one of these theft deterrents....
Reply By: cokeaddict - Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:43
Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:43
2 things ive noticed with those lockable pins....
1: the removable head is easily snapped off with a hammer, in your mates case maybe someone was trying to "borrow" the goose neck assembly and was disturbed before he got to remove it.
2: The pin is missing one critical cotter pin on the other side. This would assure the pin would not fall out even if the head snapped off.
I modified
mine long ago, I think ahead too much sometimes, but ive seen some crazy things happen on the roads so ya can never be too safe in my opinion.
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