alafarm
Bronze Member
Wanted to see if anyone has ran into this problem on their 5035. I was greasing the ML130 loader a couple of weeks ago and put the gun on the zerk on the rear top loader arm and it was squirting grease out around it. I pulled gun off and fitting came with it, thought crap I broke it off, but no the hole was over sized and not even threaded! Went to the other side, and same thing, hole over sized and the 1/4 28 zerk was just stuck down in an over sized unthreaded hole! Kind of par for the coarse on quality on these tractors! I know the loader was not built by Mahindra, but tired of this crap on a new machine!
Anyone have any suggestions on the best and easiest way to fix this? I gave up on the dealer helping! Put in a call and can't even get them to return my call! Don't really know exactly what size hole it is, can't get my calipers in there to measure and the rain has kept me from investigating any further. Can you get larger zerks that will fit my gun? I have mostly dealt with the 1/8 and 1/4 size zerks. I know you can get press in zerks, that might be easier as I would not have to pull the loader and pins to get to it to tap it. That is if I don't have to re-drill the hole to a specific size. Can't believe they just stuck the zerks in the holes, they had to know. That was not just an over site!
Anyone have any suggestions on the best and easiest way to fix this? I gave up on the dealer helping! Put in a call and can't even get them to return my call! Don't really know exactly what size hole it is, can't get my calipers in there to measure and the rain has kept me from investigating any further. Can you get larger zerks that will fit my gun? I have mostly dealt with the 1/8 and 1/4 size zerks. I know you can get press in zerks, that might be easier as I would not have to pull the loader and pins to get to it to tap it. That is if I don't have to re-drill the hole to a specific size. Can't believe they just stuck the zerks in the holes, they had to know. That was not just an over site!