Camco Eaz-Lift 44675 12-Inch Fifth Wheel Lube Plate

If you tow a fifth wheel, you already know the sound. That low groan and chatter when you crank the truck into a tight turn, the kingpin grinding against the fifth wheel head. That's steel on steel, and over time it wears both surfaces and beats up your ride. The Camco Eaz-Lift 44675 lube plate fixes it with a simple 12-inch disc that drops right over your kingpin.

Here's the deal. The lube plate sits between the trailer's kingpin box and the top of your fifth wheel hitch. It's molded from high-density, wear-resistant plastic, so the two metal surfaces never actually rub on each other anymore. They slide against the plate instead. That kills the friction, quiets the turns, and takes a real load off both your hitch and the trailer's pin box.

And the best part? No grease. Anybody who's greased a fifth wheel head the old way knows what a mess it is. Black grease on your hands, on the tailgate, on your jeans, tracked into the cab. This plate skips all of that. You get the same friction reduction without the goop. Drop it on, hitch up, and you're done.

Installation takes about ten seconds. Park the trailer, drop the disc down over the kingpin so it rests on the pin box, then back your truck under and hitch up like you normally would. The plate stays put between the two surfaces. There's nothing to bolt, nothing to drill, and no tools at all. When it eventually wears down from miles of turning, you pull it off and drop a fresh one on.

One thing owners notice right away is how much smoother the low-speed maneuvering gets. Tight campground turns, backing into a site, swinging through a fuel island. All of that used to come with a shudder and a groan. With the plate in place the head pivots freely, so the truck and trailer track together instead of fighting each other. It's a small change that makes hitched-up parking a lot less nerve-racking.

There's a longer-term payoff too. Every mile of grinding is metal wearing away metal, and a worn fifth wheel head or a chewed-up kingpin is an expensive fix. By putting a sacrificial plastic layer in between, the Eaz-Lift plate takes that wear itself and cushions the vibration that travels up through the hitch. So the plate wears instead of your truck and trailer. Replace a few-dollar disc every so often instead of a hitch head. That math works out in your favor every time.

The 12-inch diameter is sized for standard fifth wheel heads, and the single-disc pack covers one hitch. If you run more than one rig, grab one per truck. It ships with English and French labeling, so you're covered on both sides of the border.

Who's this for? Any fifth wheel owner who's tired of the grinding, the chucking in turns, or the grease mess. Full-timers who hitch and unhitch constantly get the most out of it, but even a couple of trips a season is easier on your gear with one of these in place. Weekend campers, snowbirds heading south for the winter, anyone hauling a fifth wheel down the highway. It's a cheap part that quietly protects two expensive ones, and you'll forget it's even there until the day you hitch up without it and hear that grinding come back.

What it's not: this is made for fifth wheel kingpin setups, not bumper-pull ball hitches or weight-distribution bars. If you're towing a travel trailer on a ball, this isn't the part you need. But if there's a kingpin dropping into a fifth wheel head, this plate belongs on it. Simple part, real difference, and it's easy on the wallet.