Grease upper balljoint on 4x4

[kikkegek]

guys I need some help please.

I have tried every thinkable position of te wheel and axle, but cant reach this grease fitting.

I have tried regular connection and needle...

how do you guys grease these babys?

[Pano]

I am not sure what you've got but check out this website, it says factory ball joints don't have grease fittings.

http://www.chuckschevytruckpages.com/lubepoints.html
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[hatzie]

The installer should've used a 90° Zerk.
The only thing I can think of in your situation is a low profile slotted 90° grease gun fitting like this one http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Lubrication-5883-Slo......

[Walts_restoration]

That was a master pro joint. Lol moogs offset so that you can grease them with axle in place.

[dieseldawg142]

could you get something like this in there?

[kikkegek]

Originally Posted by hatzie

The installer should've used a 90° Zerk.
The only thing I can think of in your situation is a low profile slotted 90° grease gun fitting like this one http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Lubric...gy_auto_text_y...

I went out to buy such a fitting, but the guys behind the counter at the tool shop told me those are for these flat grease fittings:



that is why he sold me a neeld adapter:



but so far I have moved the car a hundred times, but not been able to get the right angle to grease the fittings...

hope somebody can shine some light on this based on personal experience...

[Zane M]

You should be able to remove that zerk and install a 90 degree one in its place. Then, as long as you have it positioned correctly, you will be able to get a grease gun onto it.

[bilfman]

Originally Posted by zane m

you should be able to remove that zerk and install a 90 degree one in its place. Then, as long as you have it positioned correctly, you will be able to get a grease gun onto it.

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[kikkegek]

Guys,

got any pictures of these 90 degree angle zerk fittings in place? I am asking this, because in my case it seems there would just not be nough room in there for such a fitting.

[LONGHAIR]

Originally Posted by kikkegek

Guys,

got any pictures of these 90 degree angle zerk fittings in place? I am asking this, because in my case it seems there would just not be nough room in there for such a fitting.

I'm pretty sure you can't. The way I remember them back in the day was with a plug. You would install the knuckle, after pressing the ball-joints into it. Screw in the regular straight fitting, grease the joint as usual. Then you remove the fitting and install the plug that came with it. They were shorter than the fitting and less likely to break.
Apparently the thinking was that you would need to service the axle joints again by the time you needed to add grease to the ball-joints?
Before Spicer came up with the geaseable axle joints, they were un-serviceable too.

[motornut]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

I'm pretty sure you can't. The way I remember them back in the day was with a plug. You would install the knuckle, after pressing the ball-joints into it. Screw in the regular straight fitting, grease the joint as usual. Then you remove the fitting and install the plug that came with it. They were shorter than the fitting and less likely to break.
Apparently the thinking was that you would need to service the axle joints again by the time you needed to add grease to the ball-joints?
Before Spicer came up with the geaseable axle joints, they were un-serviceable too.

thats what i was told doing mine in the 87

[hatzie]

Try one of these with the U-Joint turned to the right position...

[LONGHAIR]

Originally Posted by hatzie

Try one of these with the U-Joint turned to the right position...

Those require a specific fitting, not the typical zerk.

[hatzie]

Originally Posted by LONGHAIR

Those require a specific fitting, not the typical zerk.

I've used one on straight zerks that were difficult to reach at best. Dirty grease squirted out around the unsealed shaft away from the zerk so it was feeding through and not just making a mess at the zerk. It wasn't a super tight seal though.
I'd be interested to see the fitting they were actually made for. If it's low enough profile it might be worth changing to... in places like the upper Ball Joint on the Dana44 and down those nasty holes on the baler and the chopper... If I can reach em to swap em out.

[kikkegek]

Originally Posted by hatzie

I'd be interested to see the fitting they were actually made for.

I posted it in one of my previous posts:

[cory d]

Originally Posted by Walts_restoration

That was a master pro joint. Lol moogs offset so that you can grease them with axle in place.

another reason to not buy master pro

[kikkegek]

okay, today I tried this fitting. got it from Amazon for great deal.



I thin I had it hooked up, but still no grease went into the zerk fitting I think.

man, this greae point is giving me a head-ache.

any 4x4 brothers here that succeeded?

[kikkegek]

anybody know the thread of these fittings?

I want to remove the straight fitting and use a 90 degree fitting to grease it and when I am done plug it with a blind fitting.

what is the thread size?

what are the blind fittings called? any special name?

[kikkegek]

guys!

suc6!

so happy.....tried the Thexton grease coupler again today and I guess I never had it put on correctly before.

I used a plier to put it on and then connected the grease gun...et voila! suc6...upper balljoints are greased now.

just wanted to give heads up over here on my succes.

this is the link to the tool:


Thexton THE418 Grease Coupler
Thexton THE418 Grease Coupler : Amazon.com :...