Locked Receiver Hitch Pin

The lock is buggered, I have drilled it out, and I need to pull the pin to remove the hitch.

Any suggestions?

 

Angle grinder works too.

 

The chain ears flip up instead of down on this hitch and so I can't get a saw on it. BFH time, I guess. Prolly try a bigger drill bit too.

 

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Thanks. I'll post a pic if I can't get it.

 

And if the big hammer doesn't work, get a bigger hammer.

 

If it isn't just the kind that the lock latches over a recess in the pin, then a hammer is all you need. Had to do that a few times on vehicles that came in without a key. A few good hits and the recessed end of the pin breaks off

 

do this... me on my buddies 4 runner

 

If nothing else it makes for a cool picture

 

I had a reciever so damn rusted in my old jeep I finally hooked a chain to the hitch and around about a 20"ish pine tree. At this point I had the pin out of the hitch and just wanted the hitch out.

So I floor the jeep, go about 15 feet, the motherfucker stops me dead in my tracks and I hit the windshield.

Rust is a strong son of a bitch in Michigan

 

Not much room to work, but I realized that it would be much easier to attack the Chinesium lock cylinder. Used my mini cutoff saw to get most of the way through, and then BFH'd it to death.





And remember, kids, safety glasses aren't just a fashion statement:

 

Be careful.....I slammed my face on my pintle hitch last year and knocked out 4 of my lower front teeth. Snapped them off i should say.

The 4"x 4" x 1/2" vertical plate behind the ball/pintle itself, served as a tooth removal guillotine of sorts.

Happened on a friday morning at 630 am....Got them fully extracted about 3 pm that day. Went home. Got up at 330 am Saturday, and drove 5 hrs to TN to meet my race dudes for some offroadin'..

No teeth, and 10 stitches under my lower lip and stitches where the teeth used to be.

 

Yikes I've yet to explode a grinding wheel/ cut off wheel.. knock on wood

 

So, I now have my nightmare for tonight all lined up!

 

Luckily only the back of my hand has..not my face or my man junk.

 

For future reference those types of locks can usually be broken off
by putting a two foot long length of pipe over the lock and bending
back and forth until it snaps the pin off.

 

When I was a partner in a welding shop we used to get those in pretty regularly. Heat them up cherry red and come alongs/ beat it out. Had a couple over the years that we couldn't get out.

 

That’s going in the ol’ memory bank. Thanks.