Looking for some advice, I'm in the process of trying to find a trailer to use fro trips to the tip etc. This will undoubtedly require a greased tow ball, but need to avoid cross-contamination when I'm using the caravan with an Alko hitch.
Since I've got a flange mounted tow ball, I could simply unbolt the towballs and keep swapping them, but wondered what others do in a similar situation? Swapping the tow ball obviously isn't practical from anyone with a swan-neck, so others must do something different?
Is there some kind of cover I can put over the towball to keep it clean, robust enough that it doesn't get damaged, but thin enough that it allows the hitch of the trailer to fit normally onto the towball?
Hi, What I would do if you would only doing short trips to the tip is to just lightly grease trailer hitch, then after use wipe ball with clean rag then wipe with thinners/lighter fluid or similar then rinse off with aerosol brake cleaner you get can this from pound shops etc. should find it to be then clean.
I went through this when we had a van that came fitted with the Alko Stabilizer. Every time we went to use it the towball had to be cleaned. I used Brake Fluid and a clean rag. It was a proper sod. I use a Ute Trailer for most jobs and that, ofcourse, has a greased hitch.
Fortunately our latest van has a Spring Stabiliser and so the towball stays greased.
You don't even have to grease the ball, just spray a bit of grease into trailer hitch. When you have finished towing trailer, clean ball with solvent as suggested.
There is no cover that you can fit the trailer hitch over but cleaning off a bit of grease is not difficult. Wipe most off with a rag or tissue then clean it using a solvent, thinners, petrol, brake cleaner, white spirit, meths etc. Any of these type of fluids will do.
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Topic: Keeping Alko towball clean using trailer!
