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When it rusted, it created an inadvertent pressure fit. In fact, repainting a rusted utility trailer every few years will extend its life. Applying a generous amount of Liquid wrench, and I've hit it with a hammer a few times with no luck. little at a time. Will a torch help? I'm wondering if I could just sandblast it and keep using it or if I should just buy a new one. Needless to say I won't ever forget to remove the pin/hitch like that again. You’re right. A rusty ball mount can get stuck in the receiver opening and be hard to remove. Remove a rusted trailer hitch with penetrating fluid and an air chisel, not a sledgehammer. Me too. Cloudflare Ray ID: 60964af239140cd1 The way Tester said, but attach a come-along to the ball and the other end to something real immovable. Let the air chisel chatter away at the hitch for a minute or so. you dont want white hot that will change the temper on a small square sheet steel that will also remove all the paint and under body protection there. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Ball mount rusted stuck into trailer hitch receiver. It will rust. sometimes my best work has been while drinking a beer and waiting for something to develop! the whacking in and out will let the rust get pushed out to give more room for the rust to get out of the way. It’s going to take lots of ‘elbow grease’ but it will come apart. There we go. Remove the ball and use the hole to attach. Worse yet, we've had a number of customers call us with the mount stuck in the receiver. (You won’t need a sledge hammer when doing this). thanks. i’ve tried tons of wd-40 and liquid wrench. (Dremel?) Plus, with the towbar sticking out, when I haul stuff to the landfill it makes it more difficult to back right up to the edge of the dump-off point. I can't even get the bolts to seat properly. And, if I have an extra heavy load (really too heavy for All in all cost about $40 in 'stuff' to get it out. Repeated this process 3 times. it broke the rust’s hold, but it still wouldn’t come out easily. Try a can (or several cans) of PB Blaster. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. i bought a used dakota from a guy that left the ball mount in the trailer hitch for years. Please enable Cookies and reload the page. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. Spray liberally all around where they join, and find a nice big sledgehammer to separate them…this would probably be easier if you remove the tow bar from the truck first. now the thing is rusted stuck in there. View Profile I put a small bottle jack on the back side of the rear facing side of the receiver and jacked it into the ball. I then just lightly backed it up. As a guest, you are welcome to poke around and view the majority of the content that we have to offer, but in order to post, search, contact members, and get full use out of the website you will need to Register for an Account . The trailer hitch and the hitch pin is rusted solid. I had someone come over with a rusted in receiver. I'm an idiot. Its been on my truck since i bought it over a year and a half ago...its a bumper hitch. the pb blaster will do the hard work, and the sledge will ‘knock’ the rust loose. Then repeat on the other side of the hitch and try sliding the shaft out. Stuck Receiver Hitch Bravada Car Forums Automotive Forums .com ... let us know how it works out. So I lost my key to the trailer hitch that was on the back of my Yukon.. Rusted Stuck Seized Parts, Free at Last: It's rusted on and won't come off. Preventing rust on Hitch Receiver and bar Welcome to TheMalibuCrew! • Here's what does: Shock and awe (there are no lubricants or solvents in this particular 'ible). Whoops! Since 2015 Rusted Hitch Restoration LLC. I've tried WD40 Rust Release spray, propane torch, heavy steel pipe for leverage - nothing. First, remove any loose or flaking rust with a wire brush. It is a 2" reciever and Mount. That tactic often results in parenthood, Cappy! If you can't handle the sight of the rust, pick a brand and color (Rustoleum flat black, for example) and buy a few cans. good luck, the guys have the right idea but sometimes good old rust might as well be a weld. Anywhere near the gas tank? If it’s rusted so bad that you can’t give it a couple wacks with a 9 lb hammer and knock it loose, take the whole hitch off and replace it. Usual I use the torch on nuts, but those expand which is good for that. If you have an iron trailer hitch or hitch ball that's beginning to rust you can remove the rust with Naval Jelly. If your ball mount or hitch ball are rusted beyond repair, you will need to remove them from the trailer hitch to be able to replace it under the $5 lifetime warranty through U-Haul. Reply. White hot, eh? don’t do the chain to the stump thing. Rust out and a new oem was over 1K. wire brush off the rust both inside the reciver and on the hitch when you get it out and use lots of white grease on the hitch before you put it back in. It took the blue wrench (oxy/acetylene torch) to heat it up enough to break the rust bond between the mount and receiver. So needed the parts to change to a tundra that did not have the trailer hitch first. I backed the truck up to a cement wall and had a friend put a block of wood between the hitch and wall. i’ve even tried wrapping a chain around a big tree and the ball mount (with the pin out of course)and driving as fast as i dared only to have the truck jolt to a stop without the mount coming out. The key to a successful paint job is to remove as much of the rust as possible before painting. You may have to try a few times and give the hitch a few whacks with a maul, but eventually it'll come out. So 3 months ago needed to replace my factory trailer hitch. Any other suggestions? What you will first want to do is liberally apply a spray lube like WD40 or liquid wrench to the ball mount. Stuck ball on trailer hitch. Personally I can't justify paying a bunch of money to powder coat a $150 trailer hitch. Works like a charm, and will clean everything off down to the weld metal. • Unfortunately, the holes in the frame are very rusted from the 8 years of driving without a hitch. see if there is room if you remove the spare to get at it from the front to whack it that way. Don’t put a hook at the bottom or neck of the ball. Removing a Rusty, Stuck Ball Mount & Hitch Ball. Heat works but “white hot”? Don’t forget lots of mufflers and pipes/brackets get cut off with torches every day. Rust is one of the biggest culprits of stuck trailer equipment. Took it off, and used a dremel with a cutting wheel on it, to rub back and forth on the rusted and flaky paint areas. sledge. small amount of heat just to draw the pb blaster into the receiver socket. An aftermarket hitch came with my 2003 V6 Tacoma but it looks pretty weathered. Pulled out the 5lb sledge and banged it out hammering against the nut on the ball with a sacrificial chunk of slightly softer steel in between. Heating it up and all these gyrations are going to destroy the temper of the metal it’s made of and from there, the hitch will be junk because it won’t be able to handle the weight it’s supposed to be able to handle. J. > When I have a trailer hitch, I tend to walk into it, and bang up my > legs. Then apply Naval Jelly and allow it to sit for 5 to 10 minutes—no longer than 15 minutes. Brake fluid is also an excellent paint remover so I wouldn’t consider applying it to anything painted that I wanted to remain that way. Gooseneck Ball Location with Curt Gooseneck Trailer Hitch Installed on a 2001 Chevy Silverado 2500HD How to Determine Where the Gooseneck Ball will Be in the Bed of a 1997 Ford F-350 Is the Shank of the Ball on the Curt Quick Gooseneck Hitch part # C630-652 Round or Square Removing Rust from Iron Trailer Hitch. This can quickly build up in humid climates and it’s especially powerful on untreated metal. you’ll be looking at a frame straightening soon if you keep that up! 04-09-2006, 11:16 AM #2. dubba. At first I thought it was the way the trailer sat on the car, putting pressure on the mechanism. I’ve had great luck using DOT-3 brake fluid on rusted bolts and such. Since 2015 Rusted Hitch Restoration LLC. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. That pushed it out no problem. Sounds like your ball mount has rusted so badly that it is stuck in the hitch you have on your vehicle. I have a 2002 Jeep Liberty and the correct hitch and mounting hardware (bolts and washers). It's easier and won't bend or break anything. Sometime around 1988 I had a rusted in place hitch on a 1969 Chevy Open Road van given to me by friends from Colorado. Rinse and repeat if any rust still remains. Since 2015. The pin was rusted into the D ring receiver I don't think the PB ever stood a chance to even get to it to start working. Wife's Explorer trailer hitch has a lot of rust showing and she want's it painted. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Block the vehicle wheels and with the torch, heat up the receiver almost white hot and hit the outside (all four sides) of it with a two pound hammer. Rusted Hitch Restoration LLC. Hells Bells, just back it into a volcano. All the time keeping a lot of tension on the come-along. i’ve even tried wrapping a chain around a big tree and the ball mount (with the pin out of course)and driving as fast as i dared only to have the truck jolt to a stop without the mount coming out. Some reach for a certain stinky penetrating solvent (WD40) but it doesn't really work well for this kind of thing. A rusted utility trailer is by no means past its useful life. They had tried beating it out previously. A lot of hitches and trailer equipment comes with special coatings that prevent rusting, but this can rub off over time. But the one that is on our camper is a beast. i bought a used dakota from a guy that left the ball mount in the trailer hitch for years. PB blaster NOT wd40 and heat the outside of the receiver a little to get the pb in there. I took it off today to get a better look. Better have a fire extinguisher handy for whatever catches fire! The van was so bad teh guys decided to rent a U haul to tow thei J-24 back home and abandoned the vehicle and title to me. My bad. It would be far safer to just replace it. drive in in, and out. I didn’t think that one through. 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