Thanks for the reply, I noticed that the Module Manager patch for Payload Retention System - Next in your branch of Habtech2 does not work and will have module manager constantly think that the required mod isn't installed.
After a bit of work though I got it to work and I should now be able to patch the Trunnion Pins to other mods successfully.
Even after changing: "@PART[ht2_moduleColumbus]:NEEDS[TrunnionPort]", to "@PART[ht2_moduleColumbus]:NEEDS[PayloadRetentionSystemNext]"; the model link doesn't work either and will cause and error in the log and have KSP not load the patched parts.
The original model link in the patch is:" model = TrunnionPort/Parts/TrunnionPins/TrunnionPins45".
But in order for it to work I had to change the link to: "model = PayloadRetentionSystemNext/Parts/TrunnionPins/TrunnionPins45".
Is this intentional?