It’s a standard hitch so grease the towball. There is no need to clean paint off. I use a bit of spray white grease on ball & in hitch. It’s cleaner than using thick grease.
There's an easy way to identify a standard hitch to a stabiliser hitch as a standard hitch only has one handle on the top that locks directly onto the towball. A stabiliser hitch has two handles, the first that locks onto the towball and a secondard handle that locks the internal friction pads onto the towball which can be found either on the top or on the side depending on what model stabiliser it is. A standard hitch requires the towball to be greased to reduce friction but a stabiliser hitch needs to be dry.
Quote: Originally posted by tango55 on 24/2/2019
There's an easy way to identify a standard hitch to a stabiliser hitch as a standard hitch only has one handle on the top that locks directly onto the towball. A stabiliser hitch has two handles, the first that locks onto the towball and a secondard handle that locks the internal friction pads onto the towball which can be found either on the top or on the side depending on what model stabiliser it is. A standard hitch requires the towball to be greased to reduce friction but a stabiliser hitch needs to be dry.
The Alko stabiliser hitch has two handles but the Winterhoff stabiliser hitch only has one which both locks the towball and secures the friction pads.
I have just had a look at the photo after pasting the link and can confirm that it IS definitely a standard hitch so needs to be lubricated.
With reference to the above post, it was indeed the AL-KO stabiliser hitch I was referring to as I'm not familiar with the Winterhoff type at all.
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Topic: Towball and Hitch
via mobile 24/2/2019 at 7:57am
