Grease for hitch balls
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Fallon
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Mine are used & rusty enough either directly or from various rusty trailer tongues. So even if I were to use silicon or teflon spray I'm still getting black or red residue in my shin or what not. I just go with it & use the black molly grease.
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Using grease on your hitch ball seems like a city slicker thing to me.
downsizingnow48
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Interesting. I've never put grease or anything on a hitch ball. Whatever it is for, I guess it hasn't been a probem for me.
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I take our 2" hitch's in and out to many times a week. Having the balls covered with dirty grease seems more like a laundry soap commercial to me... New balls don't cost enough to warrant my dirty pants or hands..
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really
When is the last time YOU wore out a trailer ball or hitch?
Squeeks, and long duration ease of movement, I can see. but worry over "extreme pressure grease" is just weird.
I have needed to lube the locking device from time to time to keep it from jambing. Fluid film or any spray lube seems to work.
Don't put a dirty ball socket down over a dirty ball! Makes for gritty sounds that no one likes ;-)
When is the last time YOU wore out a trailer ball or hitch?
Squeeks, and long duration ease of movement, I can see. but worry over "extreme pressure grease" is just weird.
I have needed to lube the locking device from time to time to keep it from jambing. Fluid film or any spray lube seems to work.
Don't put a dirty ball socket down over a dirty ball! Makes for gritty sounds that no one likes ;-)
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Well I used to be one who never used grease on any of my trailer hitch balls, I would sometimes give em a squirt of oil, WD40, PB blaster, kroil or whatever I had handy, or run em dry if nothing was conveniently handy. Then one day I noticed my hitch ball was having the nut work loose when i pulled the trailer even though I had tightened it with a 3/4" drive large length breaker bar socket. Luckily the lockwasher had chinged the nut enough to keep it from totally having the nut fall off.
From that day on...I have greased the ball with grease and I have never had a hitch ball work loose again on me so I will continue the practice of using grease for this safety reason alone! I usually just use the cheapest $1 a tube stuff from Rural King that I use in my wore out antique farm equipment but any grease would be fine in my opinion. My trailers live outside so grease helps the trailer coupler from getting all rusty up inside as well.
From that day on...I have greased the ball with grease and I have never had a hitch ball work loose again on me so I will continue the practice of using grease for this safety reason alone! I usually just use the cheapest $1 a tube stuff from Rural King that I use in my wore out antique farm equipment but any grease would be fine in my opinion. My trailers live outside so grease helps the trailer coupler from getting all rusty up inside as well.