Greasing your balls?

Netguy wrote:

I wiped the Vaseline off my ball today.

Nice clean, unshaven towing porn.

Man the ball is clean, but whats going on with all that shaggy stuff off to the sides?!

Netguy wrote:

I wiped the Vaseline off my ball today.

Nice clean, unshaven towing porn.

If you shave some of those bristles it’ll make your ball look bigger.

What will happen if your ball is rusty? Other than not make a good ground if you don’t have it wired into the connection.

If its rusty I imagine it grinds on your trailer coupler and makes it sloppy eventually…its easy to replace a ball but a lot harder to fix a coupler that gets sloppy. Most folks probably don’t care if there is a little extra slop, so maybe nothing. Realistically the rest of the trailer would wear out before the coupler. My trailer has a wired ground so it doesn’t affect lights and what not but if it isn’t wired that way you might end up with flickering lights when you hit bumps and such. You might start some arcing on your balls then and get some EDM type craters going on.

Been pulling trailers for 20 years. I’ve seen 1 coupler get worn out, and that was due to a dumb a$$ using the wrong size ball

Bearcat89 wrote:

Been pulling trailers for 20 years. I’ve seen 1 coupler get worn out, and that was due to a dumb a$$ using the wrong size ball

So you are saying size matters?

I don’t grease my balls, but I do use anti-seize on my nuts and bolts.

I just greased mine for the first time.

We’ll see how I like it and how the Mrs. responds.

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Smart move Ralph. No more squeaking and seized couplers for you!

Just remember grease collects dirt! I never ever in 59 years of my life seen anyone do that! Years ago my boss greaded the slides for our forklift and I was mad as he!! I told him that it would always collect dirt. Well you can hardly move them today. y I ask y?

The SCRATCHER wrote:

Just remember grease collects dirt!

A paper towel and 15 seconds of “work” after a trip clean it up. I actually looked through the manual for my trailer (for another reason), and they recommend a light coating of grease.

I wipe mine off after I use it or otherwise get it dirty. Then it gets greasy again the next time you stick it in the coupler. After a while I wipe it off and slap another squirt of grease on the ball when the coupler is starting to get dry. Always done it that way, my old man always did it that way and I probably won’t be changing my ways. I am a weekend warrior though so there is that to consider.

All cleaned up and ready for the next time.

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Do you grease all your moving parts? Some people overthink things. if you use your ball to much just give it a rest for 5 minutes and hit it again harder and faster

Do you grease all your moving parts? Some people overthink things. if you use your ball to much just give it a rest for 5 minutes and hit it again harder and faster lmao!!

I’ve always kept the grease off the balls, makes a mess out jeans, or anything else that rubs against it.

Gold Bond may be the new trend for grease free balls.

Adam Steffes wrote:

All cleaned up and ready for the next time.

How’d you feel while giving the ball a rub down?

munchy wrote:

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All cleaned up and ready for the next time.

How’d you feel while giving the ball a rub down?

It was pretty satisfying

Serious here, dad always kept grease on his hitch reciever ball. When he unhooked it from the trailer he would put a silicone “trailer ball cover” or condom (as he called it) on it, then remove the reciever from the truck.

Mine stays bone dry, gets a little rusty when not in use and only shines when it gets heavy use.

I just added a new layer of protection for my ball – seems like it will be OK but took a bit of customization to get the length right.

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This thread reminds me of the Alec Baldwin bit on SNL, schwetty balls.

belletaine wrote:

This thread reminds me of the Alec Baldwin bit on SNL, schwetty balls.

And Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls on South Park.