Slider box grease

Motor Oil on the tandem and fifth wheel sliders. Works for me!

 

Not to fond of looking like a idiot who doesn't know how to adjust my brakes, (I know DOT man I'm not certified) I had the same problem brakes were adjusted fine with heavy load tires rolled, I backed up to a curb that wouldn't tear my mud flap off and used it for a chock to slide them, when mt ran it back and forth a bunch of times to take care of the rust, fingers are crossed

 

I preferred Dawn myself, for when it rain it would wash out the grease and dirt

 

I worked at a trucking company in Albert they had a pit, it had a set of crawler tracks with track rollers on a frame, you backed the trailor on it then unstraped it, set the brakes, and removed the pins, if you needed to go forward with the set you just backed up when it hit the back stop, about two feet caridge movement it would slide forward. It was at the old Kingsway yard. Who ever built it was a great fabricator.
Just a thought!

 

Edit: This is a air slide trailer so you have to have brakes set when pulling the button and sliding, no rolling and pulling the trolley.

 

Lots of old timers swear by dish soap. Put it on and slide it around. When the pins get stuck, splash a little water on them and do what you need to do.

However, I used to pull old rusty company trailers that looked like they'd been parked in the ocean a few too many times. PB blaster would break it loose, and spray on grease would keep them working for a few months (was on a dedicated drop and hook account so I could see how they were doing from time to time). A quick spray of grease would keep them going another few months, and all the trailers got sold at about 12 years old, so I never saw any get slap-wore-out from getting grease on them. I'm sure they got more beat up from getting slammed against curbs to break the pins loose (pins actually got broken off of a few of them).

 

Having the pins broke off makes 'em easier to slide, don'tcha know!

 

We used to use Davis Coatings Transort Lube on the slider tracks. It's a pretty tough paint to help keep the rust down, but dries to a moly coating so it doesn't attract dirt. Back when I worked on box trailers, we used to clean them up and paint them about once a year.

Now I work on car a haulers and it's the only stuff that holds up on the tubes and sliding decks.

 

Ever notice the fly strips hanging from the ceiling of a room covered in fly's ? Fly's are there for a reason, you don't want fly's (dirt) in your slider...... leave the grease out.