grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off?

   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #1  

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New gun. As I was making my way around the tracotr I insert the tip into the backhoe arm and there it stayed. I've pulled, twisted, tugged, yanked. Even unscrewed the gun hose and grabbed the tip with vise grips to pry it out. All I achieved was to marr the sides of the tip. Ideas?
 

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   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #2  
Thread a grease zerk into it and start pumping.
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off?
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#3  
If I screw a zerk into it, how do I pump the grease? The grease gun hose's tip is what is stuck on the zerk.
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #5  
If I screw a zerk into it, how do I pump the grease? The grease gun hose's tip is what is stuck on the zerk.

Get another tip.

Would that not just pass the grease right on into the fitting he's stuck on ?

If it is that stuck it can just stay there then. :p

I bet it pops right off instead of pushing grease into the original zerk.
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #6  
Thread an eye bolt onto the tip, then tie off the eye bolt to the tractor and start up the tractor and extend the backhoe - the next sound you will hear id the tip coming off.
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off?
  • Thread Starter
#7  
Thread an eye bolt onto the tip, then tie off the eye bolt to the tractor and start up the tractor and extend the backhoe - the next sound you will hear id the tip coming off.

Now you're talkin' !! :D I'll do just that.
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #8  
I've seen BH's eat a lot of different things, I quess they get hungry for grease gun tips also :)
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #9  
That happened to me this summer too, a zerk on my FEL arm. Just one fitting. I got one of those flat pry bars and pried gently and popped it off. Then I unscrewed the tip of the grease gun fitting a half turn to loosen the fitting jaws, and it now goes on an comes off perfectly. :D That was after researching thr whole thing. Can you reach the end of your gun fitting and see the knurled bit where you loosen it and do it in place?
 
   / grease gun tip stuck in awkward spot, ideas to get it off? #10  
Put a screwdriver in the hole on both sides of the chuck and apply some outward pressure to stop it turning , then turn the protruding part anti clockwise with pliers . This will release the jaws and it will come off the nipple .
 

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