Pinstriper wrote:If you see significant rust, hit it with WD-40 and scrub with a wire brush, then wipe it clean and maybe do a little work with 120 grit sandpaper. Again clean it, and then more or less any grease. You use grease because it will stay on the ball/coupler surface. A little goes a long way. For me, a quick spritz of white lithium grease spray up into the coupler at the end of the season keeps rust down in the coupler. Another spritz at the start of the season does the job for the whole year.
You can also be getting noise from the hitch inside the hitch tube. Spray a little lube in there when it annoys you sufficiently. This is a good use for RemOil.
les45 wrote:Pinstriper wrote:If you see significant rust, hit it with WD-40 and scrub with a wire brush, then wipe it clean and maybe do a little work with 120 grit sandpaper. Again clean it, and then more or less any grease. You use grease because it will stay on the ball/coupler surface. A little goes a long way. For me, a quick spritz of white lithium grease spray up into the coupler at the end of the season keeps rust down in the coupler. Another spritz at the start of the season does the job for the whole year.
You can also be getting noise from the hitch inside the hitch tube. Spray a little lube in there when it annoys you sufficiently. This is a good use for RemOil.
I've tried grease but it always leaves a mess that eventually gets on your hands even when it's just a light coating. I'm looking to see if anyone has specifically used graphite spray lubricant on a hitch ball and coupler. I've used it on other things and it dries to a lubricating film that doesn't come off.
aggie79 wrote:...I too use grease. And yes it can be a mess. But, as part of my set-up ritual, I keep a roll of paper towels in the tongue box. Once the teardrop is disconnected, I wipe the grease off of the receiver ball.
Dale M. wrote:
How good does that actually work for you???
I ask becasue I have 3 different TV I move trailers around with (three trailers) and all three have different size couplers and different "drop" ball mounts on TV... Would be nice to only have 1 ball mount with correct drop for each vehicle and not have to change balls (traditional threaded) every time I need to move something...
Dale
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