daTeacha
Veteran Member
I was doing the 200 hour service on my DX29 (TC29DA in red paint) over the weekend and discovered the zerk to grease the left side brake pedal was messed up. Apparently it's been this way ever since the tractor was new but I never noticed it before. The thing is pretty well buried and kind of hard to see, so I may have missed it entirely on previous lube jobs.
When I went to grease it, the grease wouldn't go into the zerk and the zerk itself moved. I tried to tighten it and found that the bracket for the release switch for the cruise control was interfering with moving the zerk.
After messing around with various open end and box wrenches, 7mm and 9 mm sockets, 1/4" drive ratchets, screwdriver drive handles and a few other things, I finally had to remove the switch. I tightened the zerk. The fitting still didn't take grease. I took the zerk out of the angled base and got it to work. Put it back in -- still not working, so took it out and took the angled base out of the tractor and cleaned it out, too. Also cleaned out the base of the hole in which it was mounted and made sure grease flowed through the assembled zerk before putting it back in the tractor and keeping my fingers crossed that I could get it tight enough and aimed in a direction I could grease it from in the future before putting the switch back in.
All in all, I spent about as much time messing with this one fitting as I did greasing the entire rest of the tractor and loader. If yours is loose, try to have a 1/4" flex drive, a 7mm open/box combination wrench, 9mm open/box combination wrench, a 7mm socket, a 9mm socket, a 1/4" ratchet, a 3" extension, and a 1/4" screwdriver drive handy before you tear into it.
When I went to grease it, the grease wouldn't go into the zerk and the zerk itself moved. I tried to tighten it and found that the bracket for the release switch for the cruise control was interfering with moving the zerk.
After messing around with various open end and box wrenches, 7mm and 9 mm sockets, 1/4" drive ratchets, screwdriver drive handles and a few other things, I finally had to remove the switch. I tightened the zerk. The fitting still didn't take grease. I took the zerk out of the angled base and got it to work. Put it back in -- still not working, so took it out and took the angled base out of the tractor and cleaned it out, too. Also cleaned out the base of the hole in which it was mounted and made sure grease flowed through the assembled zerk before putting it back in the tractor and keeping my fingers crossed that I could get it tight enough and aimed in a direction I could grease it from in the future before putting the switch back in.
All in all, I spent about as much time messing with this one fitting as I did greasing the entire rest of the tractor and loader. If yours is loose, try to have a 1/4" flex drive, a 7mm open/box combination wrench, 9mm open/box combination wrench, a 7mm socket, a 9mm socket, a 1/4" ratchet, a 3" extension, and a 1/4" screwdriver drive handy before you tear into it.
