Not to state the obvious, but the lever is still down that locks the ball into the socket?
Your hitch release needs to lift up and slide back. Try tapping it with a hammer
Leave it lol. Now you just have to line your truck up perfectly to hook it up.
Pull back and up on the lever behind the ball
You may have to adjust the catch up in under where the ball goes
Hit the draw bar with a mallet. It may dislodge it after the lever is up and back out of the way
A touch of grease on the ball will help in the future once it is adjusted right
Is it loose or wiggle at all? I mean, can you pull the release? If you can, it should drop right out.
Big fuckin hammer
Something I had to learn the hard way was that you need to grease your ball before towing. You can get away without doing it for a while with new trailers, but sooner or later the mechanism gets rusty and you’re right back here. Any industrial petroleum-based grease lubricant will do.
