5ht Wheel hitch grease - the definitive

The owners manual for your hitch will tell you what type of lubrication to use.

I use red grease that works good. I think its for something else on cars but what do I know except that my hitch works good. Pull rite.

If you have a B&W hitch, HERE are their instructions.

Rusty

x5 or x10 on the nylon plate and a little squirt of white grease on the pivot points.

Way better than dealing with the grease on the hitch like we did in the good ole days.

Same here... nylon plate and only grease the "zirks" for the mechanical areas a few times a year. I never grease the pit itself. Nothing calls for it.

schlep1967 wrote:

Dano1955 wrote:
Searched the 5th threads for "hitch,grease" and came back with some hits, but nothing that gives me a definitive.

What's your opinion on greasing the 5th wheel, what type of grease, how often to clean the old and re-grease. Just the pin or the plates too? What about the nylon plates that the king pin goes through, are those worth the 12 bucks and should you grease the plates also?

The definitive answer is "Do what the manual for your hitch says to do."

Some manuals tell you specifically not to use a Teflon disk.

Oh, I understand now. I should do it "manually". :)

I use a plastic disc to carry the pin weight. A light coat of synthetic paste grease such as wheel bearing grease on the pin and jaws. Spray white lithium grease on the various pivot points, and that's it. It must work pretty well, as I'm still using the same B&W Companion hitch head that I purchased back in 2001, although the base has been upgraded to the 20K rated version.

Rusty

Dano1955 wrote:
Searched the 5th threads for "hitch,grease" and came back with some hits, but nothing that gives me a definitive.

What's your opinion on greasing the 5th wheel, what type of grease, how often to clean the old and re-grease. Just the pin or the plates too? What about the nylon plates that the king pin goes through, are those worth the 12 bucks and should you grease the plates also?

The definitive answer is "Do what the manual for your hitch says to do."

Some manuals tell you specifically not to use a Teflon disk.

BB_TX wrote:
Nylon plate and a very small amount of grease on the pin.

this ^. Don't want dry pin galling the jaw surfaces.

Also a bit of Water Displacer 40 on the mechanism.

Dano1955 wrote:
Searched the 5th threads for "hitch,grease" and came back with some hits, but nothing that gives me a definitive.

What's your opinion on greasing the 5th wheel, what type of grease, how often to clean the old and re-grease. Just the pin or the plates too? What about the nylon plates that the king pin goes through, are those worth the 12 bucks and should you grease the plates also?

I've always used a teflon plate (dry), with a bit of grease on the pin.

Lyle