Do you grease the bars?
I understand that the coupler ball needs to be greased, but do you grease the bars? I have the WD Hitch with the long bars instead of chains, and they sit on a bracket with a keeper pin. The other end...
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camp-n-family wrote:
Grease the end of the bars that fit into the hitch head. The end that sits on the sway brackets does not need to be lubricated.
The Equil-i-zer, and similar designed hitches, are notorious for being a little noisy and greasing the pads can help to reduce that but to me it sounds counter productive. The bars use friction between the bars and brackets to provide sway control. I would think that greasing it would reduce that ability. I wouldn't want to deal with the mess either. You can buy sway bracket jackets to reduce noise.
If it is an Equalizer, you actually grease the bottom of the sockets where they swing back and forth. This is mandatory. Greasing the L-Brackets on the frame is optional. I don't
