The Angle of the Dangle has been disturbed!!

[JohnVickrey]

   Check the picture out, this happened on the way home from Palmetto Cove. 
The Angle of the Dangle is not correct.  Don't know how serious it is yet but I pulled the PT home and didn't notice the new angle until I drove past it in my truck(a week later ).  It was the panic turn through the gas station after I missed the turn, that did it. Suddenly there was a 45 degree entrance with a lip at the top to get back on the road and I didn't angle across it. 
Crown was in hot pursuit, and he dragged pretty good too, them Winnabingo's are tougher than they look or maybe it was my welding job on his hitch. 
I will post more pictures if it is serious.

[luvrbus]

Did you build the hitch ?

good luck

[fe2_o3]

OOPS!!!

[JohnEd]

That hitch looks to be bolted to that piece of 2 X 2 X 1/4 steel 90* angle iron.  I don't know what that angle is welded to but it must be plenty stout.  To be Cavalier about it I would drive down to my local welding shop/steel fabricators.  They should have that receiver square tubing in stock and sitting on a rack.  It comes in 20 foot sections but it gets parsed into ten footers cause a 20 footer needs a forklift to move.  Put the end of a ten footers in the receiver and I think a couple guys can spring it back down.  Think was the operative word.  Ten ain't enuff?  Put a piece of bar in the end and add another 10 foot section.  The word here is closely inspect the thing now and after you tweak it.

What caught my attention is that if the angle iron is cracked or whatever you are into major work getting it fixed.  Maybe 2 hours at 60 to 80 per.  I don't think you have much to loose if you straighten it and it cracks cause replacing it is grief as well and pretty much the same job.

John

[bevans6]

What is that hitch receiver attached to?  It can't just be that bit of 1/4" steel bar that you can barely see, can it?

Brian

[Len Silva]

It looks like the hitch may have prevented crushing the exhaust pipe, so perhaps that's a good thing.

Perhaps some skid wheels under the bumper for the future.
http://www.campingworld.com/search/index.cfm?Ntt=skid+wheel&N=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=p_keyword&Nty=1&Ntpc=1

[uncle ned]

John  I think you are getting into the same boat as I am in.  The back end of your 04 is going to fall off any minute.

That hitch was not engineered to fit buy a engineer.

uncle ned

ps is the cushman running yet.

[rgrauto]

 John ,I think with a torch,big jack,chain and a heavy timber, etc. you can repair that little boo-boo.   You  may want to build a little skid  to bolt under the hitch ball nut.      Glen Rice

[eddiepotts]

Years ago I was going to my local boat store to get a new prop for mine. I was following a boat being towed that was a repo. He did not have the wheel jack up all the way and when the hit the angled drive like you did the wheel touched and pushed the hitch off the ball and the boat went right through the front doors of a hardware store. It was funny to my but I am sure not for everyone involved. I would not try to straiten that hitch. For what you have there it would be worth the money to get rid of the stress cracks. Have you seen the pictures of the new GM hitches pulling apart? It would suck for your toad or trailer to hit a pot hole and pull it apart.

[luvrbus]

A hitch should never bend up or down it is ok to use angle but you need 2 pieces the easiest way is buy square tubing and run the receiver through  the tubing and welding on both sides of the tubing then weld the attachment pieces to the tubing,not knocking your hitch just trying to help and prevent it from happening again

good luck

[JohnEd]

Oh MY, and look at that flap out at the bumper.  Do you over heat a bit?  Just asking, now.  Just asking.

John