Hitch Advice
Recently took delivery on a Keystone Outback 325BH with a dry weight of 8400# and a hitch weight of 950# and is 37 feet long per manufacturer specs. TV is a 2005 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD 6.0 gas exten...
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BarneyS wrote:
For lubing the Reese Dual Cam, you only want to use a bit of Vasoline on the cams. That makes it silent on heavy hitch weight rigs.
As far as the chains go, all they do is hold up up the cam arms a they do not move at all so no need to lube there. The chains move some on the regular Reese hitch but not on the Dual Cam.
The rest of the hitch DOES need lubrication however. You should put oil or a bit of grease on the trunnion ends where they insert into the hitch head. If using a round bar hitch the ends of the bars where they insert should be heavily greased. Also the ball should have a coating of grease on it. You can download the instructions for the Strait-line hitch here.
Barney
Great advice as always Barney.
I'll add one more point when using a Dual Cam setup
Label the bars drivers and passenger or left and right. Why, well each bar is close but not identical and you want them to fit exactly the same each time on the cam. and they will also wear in consistently that way.
