Where is the grease supposed to ooze out from when greasing loader?

[Joel/ak]

Is the tip of your grease gun good? Worn or cheap tip won't get a good seal to push the grease. Same can be said for the grease point.

Like m59 said, it should be oozing out at the pivot point

 

[Joel/ak]

I've also ran into where the grease groove is clogged or blocked also

 

[Captm]

Is the tip of your grease gun good? Worn or cheap tip won't get a good seal to push the grease. Same can be said for the grease point.

Like m59 said, it should be oozing out at the pivot point

It’s a lock and lube attachment, I dont think the zerk or the fit on the zerk is the problem because grease is definitely traveling from the centre of the cross drilled hole in the pivot bolt back out on the side of the head of that same pivot bolt. I was thinking of putting some kind of gasket material behind the head of the pivot bolt to try and force the grease to come out at the right place

 

[oldnslo]

Since the grease is traveling down at least half the length of the pivot pin the joint is getting grease. Grease is going to take path of least resistance so if side clearance between loader arm and support is tighter than diametrical clearance it will come out around the end of the pin.

 

[Midniteoyl]

It’s a lock and lube attachment

I didnt care for the LockNLube. Didnt fit most of the zerk holes, and didn't always get a good, tight, seal on the zerks so grease would squish out at the zerk.. I went with these instead. More manual, but the fit and is very tight when tighten so, and easy to remove by untightening. They fit every zerk hole. Easy on the thumbs as well

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LPR62RF

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P6K9XFX

 

[oosik]

The recessed zerks on my FEL do present added problems. The LockNLube does not fit well. Actually - I've taken the LNL nozzle off my grease gun. Gone back to the standard fitting. Get tired of scraping grease out of the recess.

 

[M59]

Just wondering if its normal that the grease comes out from the side of the bolt and not from the joint itself on some of my grease point.
I took it appart and made sure that everything is clean inside but the grease still comes out from the side of the bolt.
Would you guys call it a well greased joint if grease only came out from there?

Captm,

Here is pic of what a properly greased bushing ( rotating joint ) should look like. I exclusively use Moly ( molybdenum disulfide ), a high pressure grease that lubricates via the grease but also with the fine molybdenum particles suspended in lithium grease, because I work the machine hard in sandy soil, creek beds, mucking out silt settlement ponds, and digging clay. This is a high pressure, temp stable, water insoluble grease that keeps water and grit out of working joints and lubricates under high pressure even when most of the grease has been squeezed out of the joint. All the pins/ bushings are in near new condition after thousands of work hours.

Based upon your picture, I expect you have a blockage somewhere or your gun is leaking at the tip where it mates to the grease nipple. I use a foot operated grease bucket with a lock n lube nipple attachment that locks on to the nipple. The foot operated pump develops much higher pressure than hand operated tube loaded grease guns and pushes old grease and grime out of any nipples and joints. Buying bulk grease is much less expensive than expensive messy tubes.

Hope this helps.

 

[repete]

When I grease any point on my tractor I try to "unload" the joint. An example would be the loader where I put it on the ground and roll the bucket forward causing the front of the tractor to be lifted off the ground slightly. Now when you grease the loader you are putting the grease into the portion of the joint that actually has the wear when in normal usage.
Same applies to the rock area of the front axle and backhoe assembly.
Put the grease where the wear happens.

 

[SmallChange]

There was another thread here about how to tell if enough grease got in there. Some people said the grease would come out mostly at just one spot. And that's understandable -- once the grease has found the easiest path out, why would it also take other paths? I remember somebody posted that, if they're not seeing grease come out someplace (and recognizing that not all the escape points are visible, especially while pumping the gun), they give the gun three strokes and call it done. So this is what I do -- I pump until I see grease coming out one of the spots it should, or I've done three strokes, whichever comes first.

I have recessed Zerks and sometimes get the grease coming out in the recess, but only when I didn't get the LockNLube locked. The screw type gun fitting is interesting -- I may try one.

 

[Captm]

Captm,

Here is pic of what a properly greased bushing ( rotating joint ) should look like. I exclusively use Moly ( molybdenum disulfide ), a high pressure grease that lubricates via the grease but also with the fine molybdenum particles suspended in lithium grease, because I work the machine hard in sandy soil, creek beds, mucking out silt settlement ponds, and digging clay. This is a high pressure, temp stable, water insoluble grease that keeps water and grit out of working joints and lubricates under high pressure even when most of the grease has been squeezed out of the joint. All the pins/ bushings are in near new condition after thousands of work hours.

Based upon your picture, I expect you have a blockage somewhere or your gun is leaking at the tip where it mates to the grease nipple. I use a foot operated grease bucket with a lock n lube nipple attachment that locks on to the nipple. The foot operated pump develops much higher pressure than hand operated tube loaded grease guns and pushes old grease and grime out of any nipples and joints. Buying bulk grease is much less expensive than expensive messy tubes.

Hope this helps.

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That the thing, I am 99% there is no blockage, I took the pin out and cleaned every thing inside, I even tried to grease it with it off the tractor and grease comes out the pin hole no problem. The only way I can make grease come out from the joint is to loosen the bolt, grease it and then tight it back after.