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<blockquote data-quote="Dracula" data-source="post: 2358901" data-attributes="member: 42691"><p>You bang on the drums and the pads. Whatever works. Don't candy-ash it either. You're not gonna break them. It ain't fun, because usually if they're stuck, it's because it's cold and wet. So you have to crawl under the trailers or tractor, and in the process you get wet. Sometimes it takes a lot of banging, too. </p><p></p><p>In my experience, the plunger almost always releases from the dolly when you are disconnecting. But the few times where the plunger doesn't release completely, and the hook won't release from the hitch, grab the hook end of your pin puller and use some leverage of the pin and corner of the hitch to push the plunger back in. That's always worked for me. It might bend the puller a little bit, but that can be bent back. Also, before you do that, trying engaging and releasing the plunger again. If nothing else, this will tell you if you need the pin puller trick. </p><p></p><p>And make sure you red tag the trailer when you're done. There is nothing more irritating to a feeder driver than a lazy, POS driver who passes his problem on to the next driver.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dracula, post: 2358901, member: 42691"] You bang on the drums and the pads. Whatever works. Don't candy-ash it either. You're not gonna break them. It ain't fun, because usually if they're stuck, it's because it's cold and wet. So you have to crawl under the trailers or tractor, and in the process you get wet. Sometimes it takes a lot of banging, too. In my experience, the plunger almost always releases from the dolly when you are disconnecting. But the few times where the plunger doesn't release completely, and the hook won't release from the hitch, grab the hook end of your pin puller and use some leverage of the pin and corner of the hitch to push the plunger back in. That's always worked for me. It might bend the puller a little bit, but that can be bent back. Also, before you do that, trying engaging and releasing the plunger again. If nothing else, this will tell you if you need the pin puller trick. And make sure you red tag the trailer when you're done. There is nothing more irritating to a feeder driver than a lazy, POS driver who passes his problem on to the next driver. [/QUOTE]
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