[badger]

Just received a hitch rack from wingstuff.com for my new Hannigan trike and discovered it will not fit into the receiver. The trailer drawbar that came with the trike appears to be just a little smaller than the hitch rack. Is it the Hannigan hitch or the hitch rack?
Not sure if I should go looking for another rack (which also may not fit) or have this one machined down to fit into the hitch.
Has anyone else had similar problems with either the rack or the Hannigan hitch?

 

[KJ5IX]

It is the receiver.... It is 1 1/8 instead of 1 1/4 inch.

You will have to have the draw bar on the new rack milled down just a tad for it to fit.

Been there done that :doorag:

 

[PaulC]

You might want to contact Wingstuff to see if they have a solution. I had the same thing with a Packit Rak that I bought to slide into my Rivco hitch. The Packit Rak would not slide in the Rivco receiver, even though it was supposed to. I contacted the Packit Rak people and it turned out they had a run of inserts were slightly out of spec. Replaced it with a correct spec unit and it fit perfectly. (EDIT - sounds like George above might have the answer.)

 

[Spencer]

Hannigan makes their hitch from steel stock that has a raised "rib" on the inside. I took a long shank grinding bit and smoothed out the inside of the receiver and now at least on mine all of my standard 1-1/4" hitch bars/accessories now work, snug, but they do fit.

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[GL03]

Had similiar hitch issues, and had to grind down edge corners. Differant hitch issue though. Could not find the "CHINA" stamp though. opcorn:

 

[wingontherock]

Guess we've all had that problem... but a local machine ship just milled
down my hitch... so no biggy! Luck to ya...

 

[Falcon]

Hitch Rack

I went with the Kury rack that has the rack mount which fastens under your hitch ball and then simply slides in or out when you need it. You do not need to change the ball mount when you need the rack, and you can use the ball with the rack mount in place. Very useful, andeasy to use.

http://wingstuff.com/pgroup_detail/...l1800/272_goldwing_trailer_hitches_racks/des/