In cab fifth wheel release conversion to manual release?

My International has both, the only thing stopping it from being a man release is a pull arm, hell you could weld one to the release arm underneath if you wanted to get inventive.

 

If it has a pull arm it should work fine for ether just like mine, When mine needed rebuilt it was because it would "Jam" and not release, ended up having all kinds of junk built up under neath and the release bolt was rusted to hell and back. Rebuilt and regressed the underside fith wheel now both work fine.

I also have a push switch inside the the truck that would do the same as soon as you released your finger it would go back, I ended up using a small Flathead screwdriver to wedge the switch in the unlock position. This would allow the air release to push against the arm and give me extra push on the arm to make it so I could pull it. When I had to use both it was a good sign it was time to rebuild the sucker, Now it pulls slick as butter without the release switch.

Some questions

Whats the truck ?
What year ?

 

Well Ill let you have at it then, I will say that I honestly believe yours is a ether or and its prob just junked up underneath. But if you have found a solution more power to ya. =)

 

any air activated 5th release can be manually released
dont over engineer a problem already fixed