rbpru wrote:
My hitch is hardly clean; ignoring the ball grease under the ball cover, the road grime and surface rust, our Blue Ox bar sockets are greased and attract dirt. The bars also pick up their share of road grime.
Fair enough, but when I said my blue ox was "clean" I was referring to the fact the bars do not need to be greased, so they are clean of that. I slip a cover over the head of ball so it's effectively clean. The trunnions on the head can be kept clean where they pivot by wiping them with a paper towel after using the grease gun on the zerk fittings.
So to make it really clean of like road grime would just require a quick wipe with a damp wad of paper towels. At that point it can sit in the pass thru compartment and not get anything else greasy or dirty.
