Grease fitting/owners manuals

[Steverino]

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.

I have had the same experience with the metrics zerks myself and have played the swapping game. I was planning on investigating what I was doing wrong over the winter. I was not going to run the new ones in and hope for the best as I always lose! No sense reinventing the wheel with my planned trip to the parts store, I'll just get mine from a Kioti dealer.

 

[twigpig]

Call ahead and make sure the parts department has them. Some don't keep them in stock.

 

[RexB]

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.

Same with the CK30HST, a little design prob fixed with 90* zerks too.

I got an assortment from Rick Wallace at
wallacetractorandequipment.com