zirk weirdness

   / zirk weirdness #31  
Synchro, maybe my CK20 is a little different than yours, but I can get on every zerk. Some take a little more work to grease than others, but I can get on each one.
Check this site to see some of the different types of extensions. Maybe one of these will help you out.
John
Grease fittings
 
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Okay, this is what I did. I took out the pivot bolt so I could look into the space where the zerk allow grease to go. There is a very tight tolerance there, and it only accepts a little grease.
Do this, and be careful not to move the Jam nut. Use only the outside most nut and remove it. Hook your grease gun to the zerk and blast some in. It will start to come out of the hole for the pivot bolt. When you put the pivot bolt back in, it will push the grease back out of the zerk. But at least that way, you'll know you got grease in there. What I will do from now on, is to add some grease, drive a bit, and then do it again just to assure that what I first put in got distributed well.
Now in all of this, I discovered that I was not getting a good greasing in the right side steering cylinder pivot. I took the zerk out, spayed inside with PB Blaster and cleaned around in there to try to remove any hardened grease of whatever may have been blocking it. I then blew it out with high pressure air to dry up the excess and then replaced the zerk. I could get enough grease in that I saw it start to come out around the top, so that's good enough. On both sides you should be able to get grease to come out around the top and sides.
I had never had so much trouble getting these to grease before!
If you need to ask me anything, send it to my e-mail.
John )</font>
I guess the guy was right then. No place for the extra grease to go.. Thank you John. I saw that bolt, but would certainly not have touched it. I stay in my limits on automotive type stuff.
I just found out about peanut butter blaster last week. Neat stuff!

Thanks for looking into this. I appreciate it..
 
   / zirk weirdness #33  
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I saw that bolt, but would certainly not have touched it. I stay in my limits on automotive type stuff. )</font>
Just in case you're interested in finding out a little more about that pivot bolt, read in the manual under the every 600 hours maintenance: adjusting front axle pivot, PP 10-20 I believe.
As long as you use just the outermost bolt head to remove the whole mechanism, you'll have no problem. Just don't adjust the second (jam) nut or you may change the measurements on the pivot (back and front spacing of the tires). When you replace the bolt, tighten it up to the rubber spacer on the inside of the jam nut. It wouldn't hurt to check the measurements on the tires once in a while also.
John
 
   / zirk weirdness #34  
Syncro,

I share your grease gun woes. I hate grease zerks and grease guns!

If there was a particular brand/type of grease guns that would be guaranteed to stay on the zerk and not fall off then I would buy it!

Trying to get a flex hose onto a stubborn poorly placed zerk and then get some pressure behind it so it stays on the zerk is one of those things that always causes some profanity to fall out of my mouth.

There has got to be something better than zerks - they suck!

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   / zirk weirdness #35  
You could simply hard pipe it out to where you can reach it better. Most zerks are 1/8' pipe threads unless they're metric, buy a couple of small brass pipes and elbows if needed and put the zerk out where you can reach it, I do it all the time.....
 
   / zirk weirdness #36  
Or buy yourself a couple of the flex ends used on grease guns themselves. Screw one end in the hole where the Zerk fitting was, mount the other end in a convenient spot, add a coupling and a Zerk in the opposite end and you're all set. Never used this arrangement myself but don't know why it whouldn't suffice.
 
   / zirk weirdness #37  
Try a pistol grip gun. One hand for gun, other to keep coupling on serk. There are also clip on zerks and couplers. It has a wide head and slot in coupler.You slide the slot of coupler over the zerk and it locks. I can't remember the exact term for you to do a google.
 
   / zirk weirdness #38  
Lincoln is the only gun I have found that will stay on a fitting while under pressure. Hopefully it would work for you also. They are available at Northern.
 
   / zirk weirdness #39  
I agree with MMM - A pistol grip & a flex hose is the only way to go - one hand for the fitting & one to squeeze.

I used to have non pistol grip one - I now reolize that a $31.00 purchase at TSC should have been made a long time ago!!!
 
   / zirk weirdness #40  
I use a pistol grip with a flex hose, a lever type with a hard line and swivel connector and an air powered unit for al the zerks that are easy to access. I also bought a zerk kit from Harbor Freight that had 50 or so zerks and a combination wrench/tap to clean them.

I still encounter stuborn ones every now and then.

Curt
 

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