I noticed one of my backhoe outrigger arm pins is missing a complete grease zerk. Looking at the damage makes the events leading up to this episode obvious. It appears as though the right sized small stone became trapped as backhoe outrigger arm was lifted up and the stone very likely became wedged against and breaking zerk.
So my Kioti backhoe must be made in America and the zerks are straight and are 1/8 pipe thread. The top part (nipple) was broken but it left the threaded barrel screwed tightly in the threaded grease hole. So what do you think the easiest way to repair this. If I drill and rethread I suppose I would drill(11/32" bit) the old zerk right out and then rethread. That means driving pin just past the grease hole, then drilling and then TURNING a thread tap.
Or I suppose I could remove the remaining grease zerk with perhaps and ez out and simply acrew a new fitting in.
Anybody have a solution to this problem. The zerk is tapped into th side of the pin cylinder for this 1" pin so that means the tap can't bore completely through and clean up the threads. Anybody have a remedy for that?
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So my Kioti backhoe must be made in America and the zerks are straight and are 1/8 pipe thread. The top part (nipple) was broken but it left the threaded barrel screwed tightly in the threaded grease hole. So what do you think the easiest way to repair this. If I drill and rethread I suppose I would drill(11/32" bit) the old zerk right out and then rethread. That means driving pin just past the grease hole, then drilling and then TURNING a thread tap.
Or I suppose I could remove the remaining grease zerk with perhaps and ez out and simply acrew a new fitting in.
Anybody have a solution to this problem. The zerk is tapped into th side of the pin cylinder for this 1" pin so that means the tap can't bore completely through and clean up the threads. Anybody have a remedy for that?
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