Fifth Wheel Grease

If you are looking for a no mess quick easy 5th wheel grease, the truckstops carry plastic packets to put on your 5th wheel. These work really good but it is not the cheapest way. All of the others except the first reply are useful for you.

 

Yeah the pads are the way to go if you haul the same trailer all the time or don't change often. I don't know if they're plastic though.

 

buy a Teflon plate for 30 bucks and never worry about it again. haven't unhooked my trailer since February. I probably should just so the jaws don't seize shut, wouldn't that be a pisser

 

I've been using Schaffer's aerosol cans of 5th wheel lube, after the first coat and getting all of the old grease off now all it takes is a couple quick shots of it every 2 or 3 weeks when a bare spot shows up.
Its about $12 a can and lasts me almost a year, the Bosselman shops stock it.

Before I used to buy the cheapest tubes of grease that Wal Mart sold, take the caps off both ends of the tube and tap one end of the tube on the 5th wheel til its empty.

 

Schaffer's is top quality stuff. The whole line. If I were to grease that would be a great choice..

 

Wow everybody else uses the expensive grease. I buy the $3/per tube all purpose grease from TSC and slap some on there. Don't grease my 5th wheel all that often anymore. Usually shoot 10-15 pumps out of the gun once every 2 weeks and call things good. Seems to work out alright. I don't like lube plates personally at least the round disks that slip over the kingpin and do NOT mount permently to the trailer. Seems like they get torn up pretty easy although they aren't nearly as messy. Seems like I wear 1/2 the grease that goes on my 5th wheel.

 

I do all drop and hook so I use the so called cheap stuff . there aint none of it cheap any more !!!!
Nothing will suck grease off a fifth wheel like a brand new trailer!!!
That undercoating that they spray on the king pin plate sucks the grease right off !!!

 

As noted above, if you are a company driver than any time you are at a terminal the shop can apply the grease for you.

I do a lot of drop and hook now, and in order to save grease getting scraped off every time I back under a trailer I lower the 5th wheel before I back under the trailer then raise the 5th wheel after it is under the trailer and in front of the kingpin, getting out and looking to make sure of the trailer height versus the 5th wheel before lowering and backing. Make sure you don't back too far into the kingpin, lower or raise the landing gear as needed, and you will definitely help a grease job last a lot longer.

As for those packets of 5th wheel grease, I hate them. They don't work well with my method of backing under a trailer, and tend to make more of a mess without applying grease evenly. Better to have grease applied by a shop or get a bottle of squeeze out grease on your own.