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Help prevent damage to your motorhome's undercarriage by mounting these steel wheels to your rear trailer hitch receiver. Rollers clamp around 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" square hitch tubing.
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Note: Not recommended for use on diesel pusher motorhomes due to the extreme rear-end weight of the motorhome.
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Today we're going to review part number UF48-979017 this is the Ultra-Fab Hitch Mounted Steel Rollers for RVs with a 2-1/2" square hitch tube, this is for a quantity of 2. This part includes everything shown here on the table. It comes with the 2 skid rollers, the 2 mounting plates, the 4 U bolts, and then 8 lock nuts. These parts will help prevent damage to your motor home's undercarriage by mounting these steel wheels to your rear trailer hitch receiver. These unique rollers will clamp around the crossbar of your RV's rear hitch to prevent any tail dragging and digging in while backing up. Mounting hardware is all included.
They are made of a heavy duty steel construction which is extra durable. The wheels themselves are a solid steel so they do hold up very well. The specs on this again, it's designed to fit on a 2-1/2" by 2-1/2" square hitch tube. The diameter of these rollers themselves is 3" and the quantity is again for 2 of them. When you go to install these, what you do is start on one side of the hitch and you're going to drop these U bolts right over the top of your hitch tube. With those hanging down what you'll do is take your mounting plate, put it on top of your rollers and then just line those up, your U bolts will come right down through there.
This will be mounted around your square hitch tube, and then using the lock nuts you'll go ahead and put the lock nuts on and tighten it down to the right specs. The thing I do want to mention is once you get these installed after it's all installed you want to grease the bearings that are on the inside of these solid steel rollers on each one end there's a zerk fitting. What you'll do is get a grease gun, put it on that zerk fitting, then you can pump that grease into these solid steel wheels to help with the wear and tear on them. Just to give you a few dimensions on the mounting plate, the longest portion of it is going to be about 5-3/8", this is right at 4", then the measurement on the center to center on the holes is about 4-1/4" that way and this way is at about 3-1/8" that way. That should do it for the review of part number UF48-979017 these are the Ultra-Fab Hitch Mounted Steel Rollers for Rvs with 2-1/2" square hitch tubes. .
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (89 Customer Reviews)
Help prevent damage to your motorhome's undercarriage by mounting these steel wheels to your rear trailer hitch receiver. Rollers clamp around 2-1/2" x 2-1/2" square hitch tubing.Received the heavy duty Ultra-Fab skid wheels from etrailer yesterday then easily greased and installed either side of the hitch receiver on our RV in about 20 minutes. They are very robust and I don't expect I'll have an issue with them falling apart after the first contact with a driveway or ferry ramp - or hopefully thereafter. As always, great service from etrailer as well!
Hal - 07/22/2021The new rollers are much better than previous rubber coated wheels, of which one exploded. Installation was straightforward, but lacking the proper torque specification for the nuts on the instruction sheet. This is an important omission that the company should address for safety. They were torqued to xxlbs in a cross pattern on our unit. The selection of grease is important with the units facing a variety of weather, or road conditions. Regular grease, once wet, will deteriorate into sludge, and possibly cause the rollers to seize. Used lithium based grease that is water resistant. Suggest the overage of squeezed out grease on either side be wiped clean to lessen dust or dirt attraction on working surfaces. Less than a 5 star rating has nothing to do with the product, just the incomplete instructions.
I have a carrier with ramp on the back of my Suzuki SX4. The back end scrapes on my driveway everytime I go in or out. I mounted one of these wheels just ahead of the back end and now it rolls right over the end of my driveway, instead of gouging into the concrete. It was the perfect solution for my little car.
These skid wheels take a licking and keep on spinning. Because of the change of angle in my driveway, my Class A MH would drag its tail on the way out and when storing. Not anymore! A rock solid product.
Received my steel wheels today and installed them right away on our 2019 Four Winds class C motorhome Easy to install less than 15 minutes and they look great. Can't wait to see how they work.
Exactly what I needed and stoutly built. Delivery time was super quick to Canada. Will definitely look to etrailer again for my RV needs
One year later, these skid wheels are still doing their job, flawlessly. My driveway is sloped so I scrape every time I leave or return. These wheels continue to protect my Class A.
Just what my Diesel Pusher RV needed! Nearly every diesel pusher needs to have this product! I wish I would have had a pair of these on my rig 2 months ago. It would have prevented me from being stranded after leaving a fuel stop. What happened is upon leaving a fuel stop the back end dragged on the hitch (not a big deal) but what I didn't know is the fuel filter on the motor hangs down close to this same level, so it got crushed and quit feeding fuel to the motor. This wrecked a weekend of plans. But God had a divine appointment instead. These rollers would have prevented the fuel filter from being hit, because it would have raised up the back end about 3 inches!. I do question the zert fitting in this model it seems like a solid bolt would be stronger. But I will replace it if the current one fails.
Gary - 12/12/2018This product was very easy to install. It has provided protection for the underside of our coach from hitting the ground on several occasions.
My wife and I bought a new 5th wheel that is much longer than our last trailer. We needed rollers as the rear end nearly hits the street when we go up our long driveway. These rollers are strong and protect our new trailer from any damage. I highly recommend them.
The rollers seem to be rugged and well made. I have not install them yet.
Excellent Service. Easy installation. Products worked great. Solved my tail dragging issue due to driveway geometry issue entering a well traveled State Road. Would purchase from you again.
Had purchased the larger urethane skid wheels which broke the first time they hit the ground. Really wasn't expecting them to last on a 38' Class A, my driveway transition is steep and irregular surface at street. These steel rollers have held up great, even when I forget and hit the transition too fast. I added a third steel roller to the bottom of the receiver hitch also. All three have held up great.
etrailer.com provided customer service "like the good old days"! I came from a company that required every customer concern or complaint to be written up and given to the President and CEO of the company! The follow up with the customer, usually in person, was accomplished and reported back to top management shorn above. Your service simply was exceptional! Thank you.
Theses are heavy duty and very easy to install. Appear to be high quality and have lasted a year without issue. I bought these because of scraping the bottom of the hitch on my motorhome especially when backing up and pulling out of my sloped driveway and these definitely have helped. Easy to lube as well with a hand pump grease gun.
Very high quality with rugged construction. Easy installation on my RV which had a tendency to drag the hitch receiver when going in and out of my driveway or transitioning from parking lots to street. No more dragging!! The rollers take the abuse with no trouble. Excellent product!
Lynn R - 06/14/2018I just put the rollers on. They look very sturdy. I hope I don’t have to use them much!
Great 3 inch skid wheels with u bolts. Easy to install. It took 20 minutes to install the wheels. They look great. I have a Class A , 2012 Thor Hurricane, 32 feet long. After installing, the wheels hang down 2 1\2 inches below the skid plates. Perfect. Make sure you tighten the grease fittings before installing. You may need to tweek\squeeze the u bolts in just a fraction so they install easier. They really look great on the back of my Class A. I am so pleased. No more ramps. .
Very well designed and built - the insides of the steel casters are full-length needle bearings with an internal race, which for this price, I was NOT expecting! As good as 'the other brand' which costs over twice as much! As a retired Engineer, I guarantee these things will take a SLOW 25000+ pound load with NO problems! Most likely, a LOT more! The only downside; the Zerk grease fitting is inside the head of the bolt, and my standard size grease coupling could not 'lock on' the fitting. So, I just took the things apart and hand-packed the bearings, which is probably better anyway since now I KNOW the bearings are all greased properly! But, I do have a small diameter Lincoln coupler (#5852) on order which should fit. I am very, very pleased with this product.
First- Great speed shipping and better price than other online etailer! Next; Good solid steel rollers with lubricated roller bearings. Steel plates appear to be plated, nickel or chrome. Good hard surface! I expect long life. I noted that the inside tube used for the bearing is somewhat short. If the bolt is tightened to contact the inside tube, the wheel doesn't roll. It's pinched against the support. I inserted a small washer acting as a shoulder to provide enough clearance for the wheel. Now I can clamp the tube to keep it from turning. Thus, the roller bearings will take the load as intended. I painted the plates and U-bolts to match my trailer hitch. Assembly looks easy! Bolt on.
My 30' Class A RV had the 6" cast iron casters on the rear hitch. Needless to say, they didn't like the angle of my driveway. After searching high and low, I found these monsters. They are sturdy, have a grease zerk, and couldn't be easier to install on your receiver hitch.. If you want a little more height out of them, you can get u-bolts and a piece of square bar or heavy gauge tubing to push them down a bit more as they aren't very tall. I also noticed a nylon washer on either side, which should NOT be an issue, but if it is, they are easy enough to replace. If these aren't bulletproof, I don't know what is. Also, Stacey A at e-trailer was AMAZING with helping me through my order issues. Stellar service and prices.
Installed them today. Obvious high quality. Looks like they'll do a great job. Gave it four stars only because I haven't witnessed them actually doing that great job.
While I have not put these thru the torture of being drug across the pavement yet, I can say the build quality, fit and finish of these is great. These are super heavy duty! The rollers are truly solid steel! They give me piece of mind that my 5th wheel's rear corners and wall are not going to be damaged by the road in some awkward scenario. They will also protect my stinky slinky tube from being ground off on the bottom.
These heavy duty hitch rollers are the answer to avoiding extensive damage to the rear of the motorhome. I like the fact that they have greese zerks.
Robert J - 10/01/2017Heavy duty, well built product. Only took 20 Minutes to install. Staying these wheels on steep driveways is much better than grinding down your hitch.
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