Which air hitch should we keep? - RV-Dreams Community Forum

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

Which air hitch should we keep?

TheHarveys · RV-Dreams Family Member

Maybe I am mis-understanding your question...but I did not think MorRyde made an AIR hitch. We have a MorRide hitch on our fifth wheel and it has rubber "donuts" inside it to limit and negate the "chucking" effect of the fifth wheel.
Assuming you have the same MorRyde hitch on your fifth wheel, then I do not think you need to do anything.
I would just hitch up and take it out and see how you like the way everything rides.
At the very most, you might trade out the hitch on the trailer. I would definitely keep the E-Z Floater hitch on the truck.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

From what I've heard from others on other forums, it isn't a problem even if one does have both an air hitch and an air ride pin box. I don't know about the MorRyde system all that much, but I don't recall anyone saying that MorRyde had an air pin box. So, I would simply suggest you not change anything.

I've not ever heard of the E-Z Floater fifth wheel, so I really can't say anything about them.

Terry

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

the "doughnuts" I think he was referring to are the white plastic discs seen between the 2 plates on the pin box in the picture of the Morryde.

The hitch on your truck is a true "air hitch" and will lesson the impact of the road between your truck and 5th wheel frame. You can adjust the ride of the 5th wheel (and "stiffness" of the hitch) by adjusting the amount of air inside the black air bags.
The Morryde pin box is used to reduce the "chucking effect" caused from forward and backward movement (starting/stopping etc) and has little to no effect on up and down movement caused by bumps, chuck holes and freeze joints. There is no adjustment on the Morrydes that I am aware of.

Again, I would just keep them both and enjoy the ride.

Phil

ps: nice looking truck

-- Edited by Workinrvers on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 05:38:52 PM

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

I agree with TheHarveys, leaving the set up as is should not cause any problems. If you must get rid of one or the other, keep the air ride hitch on the truck. I had the air ride pin box on our Montana and it helped with some of the roughness an HDT causes but an air ride hitch would have been a lot better IMHO (I had a 20K Reese on the Freightliner).

Phil

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

I was trying to attach my pics of the MorRyde and EZ-Floater, but don't understand how. If I understand correctly here, the MorRyde is actually a 5th wheel and the EZ-Floater is our "Air" ride? I was thinking they both are the air ride, but it makes more sense to me now that the EZ-Floater is the 5th wheel hitch. The previous owners loved this hitch and could not say enough about how super easy it was to hook up and unhook as needed..

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

TheHarveys wrote:
Maybe I am mis-understanding your question...but I did not think MorRyde made an AIR hitch. We have a MorRide hitch on our fifth wheel and it has rubber "donuts" inside it to limit and negate the "chucking" effect of the fifth wheel.
Assuming you have the same MorRyde hitch on your fifth wheel, then I do not think you need to do anything.
I would just hitch up and take it out and see how you like the way everything rides.
At the very most, you might trade out the hitch on the trailer. I would definitely keep the E-Z Floater hitch on the truck.

Yes, I believe that you understand well. Our EZ- Floater is exaclty how you are saying about the rubber "donuts", but our MorRyde does not have the "donuts".. I really wish I knew how to attach photos. If someone here can tell me how I would be happy to share so it can take away all confusion for everyone.. ;)

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

http://s1053.beta.photobucket.com/user/ld271/media/IMAG0490.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7

Above is the EZ-Floater ;)

This MorRyde is bascally a duplicate of what is on our Grand Junction.

http://tweetys.com/morryde-fifth-wheel-pin-box.aspx

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

Workinrvers wrote:
the "doughnuts" I think he was referring to are the white plastic discs seen between the 2 plates on the pin box in the picture of the Morryde.

The hitch on your truck is a true "air hitch" and will lesson the impact of the road between your truck and 5th wheel frame. You can adjust the ride of the 5th wheel (and "stiffness" of the hitch) by adjusting the amount of air inside the black air bags.
The Morryde pin box is used to reduce the "chucking effect" caused from forward and backward movement (starting/stopping etc) and has little to no effect on up and down movement caused by bumps, chuck holes and freeze joints. There is no adjustment on the Morrydes that I am aware of.

Again, I would just keep them both and enjoy the ride.

Phil

ps: nice looking truck

Thank you for the clear explination of this what is obviously new twerritory to us, and will do! Also, thank you for the comment on the truck. Feeling pretty happy about it ourselves. ;)

-- Edited by Workinrvers on Wednesday 21st of November 2012 05:38:52 PM

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Phyllis,

The link to your picture on Photobucket has been "broken." I first looked at this thread when I was on break at work and could see the picture. Now, the link to the truck simply takes me to Photobucket's "sign-in" page. Did you happen to delete the photo from Photobucket?

Terry

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo wrote:
Phyllis,
The link to your picture on Photobucket has been "broken." I first looked at this thread when I was on break at work and could see the picture. Now, the link to the truck simply takes me to Photobucket's "sign-in" page. Did you happen to delete the photo from Photobucket?
Terry

Terry,

I just tried it and it worked for me, not sure what's up.

Phil

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Workinrvers wrote:
Terry and Jo wrote:
Phyllis,
The link to your picture on Photobucket has been "broken." I first looked at this thread when I was on break at work and could see the picture. Now, the link to the truck simply takes me to Photobucket's "sign-in" page. Did you happen to delete the photo from Photobucket?
Terry
Terry,
I just tried it and it worked for me, not sure what's up.

Phil

Well, at least it works for someone. I just checked again and I still get the sign-in page. I checked with Google Chrome and was able to see it with that one. Weird....

Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 08:13:13 PM

sunflwrgirl · RV-Dreams Family Member

Not understanding why you are having troubles with it Terry, it does seem to work fine for me too.. Glad you were able to finally able to see..

RickandJanice · RV-Dreams Family Member

sunflwrgirl wrote:
http://s1053.beta.photobucket.com/user/ld271/media/IMAG0490.jpg.html?sort=3&o=7
Above is the EZ-Floater ;)
This MorRyde is basically a duplicate of what is on our Grand Junction.
http://tweetys.com/morryde-fifth-wheel-pin-box.aspx

After looking at the picture of the EZ Floater hitch on your truck, I think you should start off with both this hitch and the MorRyde king pin box you already have on the trailer. The MorRyde is built to control front to back chucking where the EZ Floater will cushion the vertical movement between the truck and trailer. Both together should be about the best combination you could possible have. Nice look truck too!