Pintle Hitch Ring Dimensions

Class 1 trailer hitches.

Pintle hitch ring dimensions.

Class 5 xtra duty trailer hitches. Choose a pintle hitch ring with a 2 1 2 inch or 3 inch inside diameter and in raw steel or black powder coat finish. Your account has been temporarily locked so no orders can be placed at this time. The military and heavy industry have used pintle hitches this size and bigger for decades.

Please contact our accounts receivable department at 877 287. Class 3 trailer hitches. The pintle hitch plate will need holes for mounting the pintle hitch and if the hitch uses an air cushion or a shock absorbing spring there will need to be holes to allow these items to pass through the plate. They are notorious for their high weight capacity and simple design.

The basic pintle hitch is essentially a hook and loop with the hook attached to the vehicle and the loop mounted on the trailer. Using a pintle hook and lunette ring assembly and coupler and trailer hitch ball bolt pattern for curt and tow ready lunette rings available mounting bolt pattern for bolt on trailer side lunette ring. Because of their simple design pintle hitches are able to have thicker metal construction and more secure coupling. The max coupler and lock and roll hitches on the other hand have a lot more weak points that could break than the pintle hitch setup but that brings me on nicely to the negatives.

Class 2 trailer hitches. The b w pintle hook mounting plate for 2 1 2 hitches bwpmhd14202 does not have any drop and it will take a pintle hook and hitch ball combo that has mounting hole spacing that measures 3 3 8 from left to right and 1 3 4 from top to bottom such as the maxxtow mt70240. Rear mount trailer hitches. Both your pintle hook and lunette ring should have a sufficient gtw rating to support the loaded weight of your trailer.