Lube plate

minnow wrote:

C-Bears wrote:
Here is the way I look at lube plates. They were invented because folks didn't want to grease the tops of their hitch plates. The grease makes the tops of the plates dirty.

If my hitch manufacturer designed mine for use with a lube plate then it would have been included in my paperwork and I would have been instructed to use it instead of grease.

With that line of thinking, how do you empty your black & grey tanks, hook up your cable TV or change a spare tire as the manufacturer didn't provide a sewer hose, coax cable or lug nut wrench.

:B...funny, but you are correct.....the place I purchased my 5er kicked in a sewage hose, but, no lug wrench or coax cable....never thought of that....pretty good....

C-Bears wrote:
Here is the way I look at lube plates. They were invented because folks didn't want to grease the tops of their hitch plates. The grease makes the tops of the plates dirty.

If my hitch manufacturer designed mine for use with a lube plate then it would have been included in my paperwork and I would have been instructed to use it instead of grease.

With that line of thinking, how do you empty your black & grey tanks, hook up your cable TV or change a spare tire as the manufacturer didn't provide a sewer hose, coax cable or lug nut wrench.

C-Bears wrote:
Here is the way I look at lube plates. They were invented because folks didn't want to grease the tops of their hitch plates. The grease makes the tops of the plates dirty.

If my hitch manufacturer designed mine for use with a lube plate then it would have been included in my paperwork and I would have been instructed to use it instead of grease.

Actually when I purchased my 5er back in 07', there was a lube plate included in the "owners manual/accessories package), straight from Monaco/HR.(still sealed in plastic along with manual's, etc).

The teflon/delron/nylon, (depends), that the 5er rides on between king pin and 5er hitch is as smooth for movement as the grease...just not as messy and won't pick up dust, dirt, etc.

There are various thickness lube plates that one can purchase, and they last...Been using the one that came with my 5er since 07'....I have a brand new "spare", but have yet to use it.

Here is the way I look at lube plates. They were invented because folks didn't want to grease the tops of their hitch plates. The grease makes the tops of the plates dirty.

If my hitch manufacturer designed mine for use with a lube plate then it would have been included in my paperwork and I would have been instructed to use it instead of grease.

I use one with a BW Companion and it works great.

The correct answer is maybe. Depends on several factors to include pin length, lube plate thickness, and hitch design. I have had trouble using a lube plate with a Binkley hitch head. It would not latch with a lube plate, yet the same fiver with a Reese hitch and a pull rite hitch latched fine.

If you used more than one plate, (no reason to do so) it could be too thick, but use one and no issue.

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