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Grease on your ball(s)??

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Do you grease your ball(s)?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 149 80.1%
  • N0.

    Votes: 31 16.7%
  • Don't have any balls.

    Votes: 6 3.2%

  • Total voters
    186

Too Heavy? Too Long?

Any streamers on here??

I use wheel bearing grease and clean the 2-5/16 ball with carb cleaner. I clean and re-lube before every hitch-up even overnighters. Same treatment for the equalizer bars and anti-sway bar. Cheap insurance.
 
I use a spray chain lube on the goose neck. But on a light trailer like a quad or snowmobile trailer I don't see a need for lube as it only make an un-needed mess.
 
Occasionally, if I dont grease my balls, I have to get a set of vice grips on em nice and tight and hit em with a hammer just to get em off. Sometimes, if I havent used em in while that don't even work, so I have to get out a torch and get em up to temp to get em off. When theyre really red hot, ya pich them vice grips on em and whack like there was no tommorow. It that doesn't work you should just have em cut off.



Bob,



I hope that after you heat a hitch ball to red-hot you throw it away.



I don't know anything about the heat treatment of hitch balls, but I suspect that the larger, stronger balls are heat treated. You will anneal the steel by heating it red-hot, thereby destroying the factory heat treatment. I wouldn't ever trust it again.
 
Couldn't resist....

Hello - my name is Mr Spaulding - you play with my balls. :-laf Oh and yes I keep mine greased... . always nice to have folks walk into a greased ball... .
 
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