Tow hitch - which grease?

[Banus]

Hi all,
Ok so I haven't done this before and the last time I used a grease gun was to grease the ball joints in my 1972 Triumph Spitfire Mk IV when I used to use Castrol LM. Moving on 43 years..............
The Alko tow hitch on my 2018 Swift Challenger 480 could do with re-greasing. I've located the grease nipple on the underside of the hitch. So, 2 questions.
1. Which is the correct / best grease to use?
&
2. I pressume after cleaning the nipple I keep applying grease until I see grease squeezing out of a joint.

 

[Mr Plodd]

Pretty much whatever you have, it's not as if it's a high load/high temperature environment where resistance to eitger is critical is it? It's more about stopping corrosion I reckon.

 

[Hutch]

Two things,
1 I don't know which grease to use, for the hitch Not the tow ball, I still have a tub of Castrol LM( low melting point) that I use on bolt shanks for almost everything that might rust, except brakes.
2, If you use an AWS tech to service your caravan, then he will know.

 

[IanB1485]

From the Alko manual:- multipurpose grease to DIN 51825 KTA3K or just LM grease

 

[JTQ]

Congratulations on actually finding the hitch shaft's single grease nipple if it is the same as mine. IMO that's quite a challenge in itself.
( Edit; found an image if others need it)

I use Castrol LM, have been doing so for decades. Thinking aloud, the only real area of concern I suspect is that as the bearings are a "plastic", some grease matrix bases, might cause swelling. Seems from my experience LM does not to any level of concern, this van I have serviced for 16 years.

 

[toad a caravan]

Which ever grease you use and for whatever reasons always put the the lid back on securely 👍🙂

 

[JTQ]

Have you got the "T shirt"?

 

[toad a caravan]

Got one,"I'm with stupid }" if that counts?