Two questions: Hub temp and hitch lube
OK, two days until I leave for my trip from Wisconsin to S. Texas and back towing my 19' KZ Sportsman. It is a single axle trailer and since this will be my longest trip with the trailer by far, I am...
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dodge guy wrote:
The hub temps will probably be around 100 degrees or so. Compare them side-side, if one is significantly hotter than the other then something needs to be checked.
Yes you want to lube the hitch ball. Metal on metal is not good and will prematurely wear out both the ball and coupler. It's basically a ball joint, and those also have grease in them. I wipe it off about every other trip and reapply a new dab of grease. Same should be done to the points where the WD bars slip into the WD hitch head.
Here Dodge Guy gives good advice. I completed a 9000+ mile trip and learned a bit about ball grease. I was using Lubrimatic white lithium grease at the start. I cleaned and re-applied each uncoupling. The white grease turned into a thick, black, nearly dry cake and allowed the ball to squeak. Worthless, so I cleaned and used my red wheel bearing grease. That worked as it should. I was once in the any grease will do camp, now I know better.
