Turn your existing receiver hitch into a capable pintle hook mount without swapping out your entire hitch assembly. The B&W PMHD14003 pintle plate is built for serious towing duty -- rated to 16,000 lbs gross trailer weight -- and is the hardware of choice for RVers, contractors, and fleet operators who tow trailers equipped with lunette ring couplers. Bolt it up, drop in your pintle hook, and haul with confidence.
Ball-and-coupler setups dominate recreational towing, but plenty of heavy utility trailers, military-style flatbeds, equipment haulers, and commercial dump trailers use a lunette ring (or lunette eye) coupler instead. A lunette ring slips over a pintle hook, which in turn must be mounted to a rated plate -- that plate is this part.
The B&W PMHD14003 is a purpose-built steel plate that accepts a standard pintle hook body and mounts to the receiver hitch shank or directly to a ball mount / hitch head in B&W's Pro Series lineup. At 16,000 lbs GTW capacity, it handles serious working loads that far exceed what a standard ball hitch can safely manage.
Heavy-duty capacity handles large utility trailers, equipment haulers, and commercial dump trailers that require a pintle connection.
Heavy plate steel with tight-tolerance machining -- no flex, no slop. B&W's manufacturing standard means repeatable fitment every time.
At 10.85" x 7.0" x 2.22", this plate keeps the pintle hook positioned close to the hitch without adding unnecessary stack height.
Designed to integrate with B&W's Pro Series receiver hitches and companion pintle hook hardware for a fully rated towing system.
A pintle hook cannot bolt directly to most tow vehicles -- it needs an intermediate mounting plate that interfaces with the vehicle's receiver hitch system and provides a flat, fully supported bolting surface for the pintle hook body. The PMHD14003 is that plate.
The plate transfers tongue load and drawbar pull forces from the pintle hook into the receiver shank and hitch frame rather than concentrating stress on just the hook bolts. This is why using a rated plate like the PMHD14003 matters -- an improvised or underrated mount is a failure point waiting to happen at the worst possible moment.
The PMHD14003 is the plate only -- the pintle hook itself is sold separately. B&W offers compatible pintle hooks in its Pro Series lineup. When selecting a pintle hook to pair with this plate, confirm that the hook's bolt pattern and bolt size match the plate's mounting holes. B&W pintle hooks designed for the PMHD14003 will list this plate as a compatible mount.
Installation requires bolting the pintle hook to the plate using the hook manufacturer's specified hardware (typically grade 8 bolts), then mounting the plate assembly into your receiver hitch or ball mount head. Always torque all fasteners to the pintle hook manufacturer's specification and use hardened washers under all bolt heads and nuts.