How do I get grease in this fitting?
- Thread starter Gebo
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Is access improved if the driveshaft is rotated, for example, 30° or 60°?
Your nipple is too big... You could use a needle.
Recessed fitting adapter
A rigid, narrow 3.5” extension for your grease coupler. Easily reaches Zerk fittings in recessed or confined areas Tip has a concave cup shape to give some flexibility when positioning on the top of the Zerk fitting Quick-connect locks into any grease coupler. When used with a LockNLube Grease...
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Look at the last two adapters in the video....one of those should work.
This.Recessed fitting adapter
A rigid, narrow 3.5” extension for your grease coupler. Easily reaches Zerk fittings in recessed or confined areas Tip has a concave cup shape to give some flexibility when positioning on the top of the Zerk fitting Quick-connect locks into any grease coupler. When used with a LockNLube Grease...
I wouldn't expect a needle to work well, since it's still a ball check valve style nipple w/o any boot to get the needle down into.
maybe my needle isnt your needle I mean this style.. (see video)
not the kind you grease through rubber boots with
It will activate the fitting just doesnt lock on.
Does your grease gun have an extension pipe with coupler or a flexible hose with coupler?
Looking at the pic, it seems like a flex hose coupler would get that. But the pic may be deceiving.
Yeah, rotate the driveshaft to the point where the joint opens up to where you can get your hose in there. Never greased a 3rd gen, but this works on my 4th and 5th gens. I also have a lock-n-lube, which may help?
Agreed, that could work better than some more traditional style "needle" nozzles, but still looks like it will depend on exact size match with the check valve ball or rather that it isn't an exact match (depresses ball but still a gap around it) so there is space around it for grease to flow. It just seems like a cup style adapter is a more universal solution.
I use an all steel needle on hard to reach fittings like the one in the op and it works fine - better than one would think.
Thanks guys.
I'll try. Thanks for idea.
I'm gonna try a needle simply because I can find one in stock for about $15 after I spin the shaft a little to see if it opens up the "hole"
I just can't grind down the nozzle. That would work but I just can't do it. I guess I'm too sissy....
I just can't grind down the nozzle. That would work but I just can't do it. I guess I'm too sissy....
Does the needle hole in the dust boot need to be sealed with something after so it doesn't leak.
There is no dust boot, it is a u-joint. The needle we are referring to is not to pierce a boot, it is to reach tough to reach grease fittings. Usually they are flat fittings (pictured) but they also work on regular ones.
please see pictures above. no one here suggested a boot piercing type needle.
I see it thanks.
