Pintle Vs. Standard ball Hitch what are your thoughts?

[Buliwyf]

Mine's actually a pintel-ball. 2" pictured, I have another pintel assembly with the big ball under the back seat. Just remember to move those 4 bolts a couple times during the winter.


I've never needed to weld a sharkfin under a pintel ball either. A nice perk.

 

[honda250xtitan]

I'm taking my trailer up north tomorrow...hope the ball hitch coupler doesn't cause a catastrophic failure when i hit those speed bumps in the gas station!!!

 

[mep1811]

I have been using a pintle for 20 years . Now I no longer have a M416 with a rotating lunette ring I have a rotating pintle hook. Much cheaper set up than a a fancy off road hitch.

 

[lacofdfireman]

I don’t know maybe I’m totally wrong here but I think we tend to over think this entire hitch thing. I’m pretty sure that 98% of us don’t haul an off road trailer anywhere that a 2”ball wouldn’t work. I’ve been in some pretty off camber situations with a 2” ball to the point where if I had a max coupler that just let my trailer keep rotating it would have probably flipped. I think a properly adjusted 2” ball could work for pretty much all of us unless you are extreme rock crawling. I know some of us think we are super hard core off roadies but I’d be very surprised if a 2”ball wouldn’t work 98% of the time. Just my 2 cents. Im not sure where all these stories about a 2” ball system just coming apart comes from but I’m not finding the info to support that. I’m sure I’ll have some disagreements but I’m pretty convinced I’m right.


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[Buliwyf]

Pintel is quicker to hitch up to as well. It does't take much goo to mess up ball hitches. I miss our pintels at work, everything is ball now.

 

[SoDakSooner]

My setup is similar to several above. can change out to any style I want. Was going to do up a 2" ball setup but honestly at this point I haven't felt the need to.

 

[Buliwyf]

Don't forget about this mod:


Or at least, don't jack knife the trailer, in reverse, offroad, backing up an off camper hill. (lolz)

 

[KD2018]

Question for you all, I am new to ball hitch vs pintle. I purchased a pintle hitch to pull my pop up camper. My pop up camper still has the ball coupler portion, I was told I can just put the pintle hitch in the coupler..but it seems like that isn't correct.

 

[rnArmy]

If you've got the pintle hitch on your tow vehicle, then you need a lunette ring on the trailer's tongue. The easiest way is if your trailer's tongue has a 2" receiver hitch at the end. Then all you need is a lunette ring to slide in there and call it done (pictured below and in post #40 above). Any competent metal fabrication or trailer shop should be able to put a 2" receiver tube on your trailer's tongue.

Lunette Ring: https://www.etrailer.com/Off-Road-Accessories/Tow-Ready/TR63045.html

They sell these combo pintle hitch/ball things (which I think look goofy, but whatever...):
https://www.etrailer.com/s.aspx?qry=pintle+hitch&furl=-pg-Pintle_Hitch-sf-Pintle_Hook_~_Ball_Combo
but if you're running the ball coupler on your trailer, there's no advantage to using one of these combo things vs. a regular ball hitch.

 

[1.9TDIZook]

I wheel with a ball hitch,no problems.