Grease fitting/owners manuals

[buyerjohn]

Hi - after a long time lurking and learning I bought a used (200 hours) DK45s with cab - deal was too good to pass up even though I thought I'd be buying a new ck30 instead. Rick Wallace was a huge help through the entire process...

here's my question(s):

1. I didn't get an operating manual with the tractor, what's the best way to get one? ditto for the Kioti backhoe.

2. one grease fitting (on the Kioti backhoe) has a spring sticking out of it...my logic says its broken...I've read plenty of threads on removing the zerk fitting but my question is what exactly gets removed?! By that I mean I can see a Kioti factory paint covered nut around the fitting and when I look at a zerk fitting it has a nut around it. So, is the nut I'm viewing simply a painted zerk fitting? or something else?

The reason i'm confused is that in the broken grease fitting threads, folks talk about removing the rest of the zerk fitting with a left handed drill or something similar. Is that because part of the threads get snapped off in the hole? Is my job as simple as i think, unbolt the old zerk and screw in a new one?


thanks, John.

 

[DK35vince]

1. Any Kioti dealer can get you the owners manuals. We have several good dealers that frequant this site, give one of them a call and they can send you the manuals.

2. The grease fitting is broken off. The threads are still in the hole. Tap a small easy out into the hole and screw out the rest of the grease fitting, screw in a new fitting.

 

[buyerjohn]

Vince - thanks for the reply...is the orange paint covered nut part of the zerk??? the zerks I see have a nut at their base for installation...why can't i just back the zerk out of the hole using the nut I see? or is it not part of the zerk?

what you're saying implies that it's not par of the zerk and that's why i need the easy out...

thanks for clarifying...John.

 

[DK35vince]

If the nut is still there then you can just turn/spin it right out. It is part of the zerk fitting.

 

[buyerjohn]

do the nuts normally get painted by the manufacturer?

Also, to make it easier to grease, I'm assuming it makes no difference if I install a 90 degree bend zerk vs the straight one currently installed.

John.

 

[ToadHill]

I replaced many of the stright zerks on my DK35 with 90 degree units to facilitate greasing. I couldn't understand why they installed stright fittings in some of the areas. For instance; with the placement of the fittings for the brake and clutch peddles. with the FEL on, you couldn't reach the fittings.

 

[buyerjohn]

I replaced many of the stright zerks on my DK35 with 90 degree units to facilitate greasing. I couldn't understand why they installed stright fittings in some of the areas. For instance; with the placement of the fittings for the brake and clutch peddles. with the FEL on, you couldn't reach the fittings.

cool - I'll do that...i looked closer at my fittings...and just unscrewed it with a 10mm socket...turns out that the nut on the zerk was painted by the factory on the hoe but not the fel...off to buy new ones..thanks for the help guys...

John.

 

[twigpig]

Go to a Kioti dealership and get Kioti OEM replacement zerks. The threads for Kioti zerks are unlike anything that people around here have seen. I tried Napa, other auto parts stores and specialty stores like Tacoma screw and Champion Fasteners but nobody had the same thread. I don't know if other people are taping out the holes for a more standard thread or just screwing regular zerks in as best they can but my experience is it is best to get Kioti OEM zerks. Why they would make such a common part non-standard is beyond me. But these are the same people that brought us cracking loader cross-member braces so go figure. If you don't have any Kioti zerks on hand just swap one from another part of the tractor after you greased the doning part and put the broken one in the doning hole to protect the threads from dirt until you can make it to the Kioti dealership and pick up new ones. They are cheap so I would get an assortment of straight, 45 and 90 degree ones to keep on hand.

I am still trying to figure out how to grease the shaft for the dampener on the hst control on a CK30. There is a hydraulic line that goes right over top of the zerk and the zerk appears to be a smaller size thread than the rest although I haven't taken it out yet. I assume that's a zerk and not a hydraulic bleed valve. It doesn't show up in the parts manual so if anybody knows what that thing is shout out.

 

[VictorW]

I had to replace a few of mine. I get metric zerks and haven't had a problem. There are a few sizes to metric as with SAE.

 

[twigpig]

I can get about one thread on with regular metric zerks before the threads sart binding up and it feals like I'm going to strip them. I have showed the old zerks to the parts guys at all the parts places and they say the threads are tapered and they don't have anything to match. I tried an american pipe thread zerk because pipe threads are tapered but it didn't fit either.