5th wheel jaw wont retract?

Pulled the handle, one of the jaws retracts, but not the other. I can reach in with my crowbar and easily wiggle it around so I know there's no pressure on it, but it doesn't seem to want to retract.

Any thoughts?

Is there a way to manually move that jaw like attaching a piece of wire to the other end of it to pull?

 

Unfortunately I can't do that since I have a trailer attached. But, it just released when I cranked up the trailer as high as it would go, dumped my air bags, and pulled forward.

Yet earlier at my reciever I drug the trailer forward off the dock trying to disconnect. Workers where about to go inside too, shame on them for not waiting for me to disconnect as I was instructed to do.

 

You meam from that turbo issue at the start of the month? Yep. But I broke down again on Tuesday and just got going again today.

It just died while driving across WA on i90. I had low fuel but shouldn't have been empty (300mi drive, 10k lb load, started with 1/4 fuel) so had 20 gallons brought (just to be sure) and after 4 hours of trying and another 20 gallons the truck still wouldn't start. Ended up getting towed 50 miles to kenworth.

Few hours of them inspecting stuff, struggling to get the engine started and it refusing to stay running, they found one of my fuel line connections between the pumps and tanks was bad and letting air get sucked into the fuel system preventing the engine from getting enough fuel. Overall another $2900 spent and the parts (fuel line clamp and O Ring) didn't even cost $40.

So yay, down over 15k so far this year and there's some other repairs I still need to do. Oil pressure sensor is bad, an O2 sensor on my DPF is bad, belt tensioner for my fan is shot (but thankfully i won't need the fan until closer to summer), and I have a drive tire that needs to be replaced but worst case I'll just pull it off since I run light enough loads to still be legal with a single tire.