Careful with your u-joint installation.

390Nut · Post by **390Nut** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:44 am

Those at the rear axle with a zerk fitting (greasable) truly do go in one way ONLY. That is if you ever intend to get a grease gun on the zerk later.

Second times a charm.

kaptnkaos · Post by **kaptnkaos** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:42 am

Hey Paul,

The same this goes for the front one...

I put that one in backwards ...

But I'm not gonna pull it to change it now...
My rear one was differant than the other two, even though they had the same part number and came from the same store.
My rear joint has a straight grease fitting right in the middle...
I can't even get a gun on it... I'm gonna swap it out with and angled fitting.

KaptnKA

S

averagef250 · Post by **averagef250** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 5:47 pm

Buy the non-greasable HD spicers. They last twice as long and you never have to worry about them.

Greasable U-joints should be installed with the zerks being compressed in forward driving.

kawasakifreak77 · Post by **kawasakifreak77** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:12 pm

For hard to reach grease zerks try one of those needle things. I can't remember the official name but you put in the end of your gun & poke it into the zerk.

Rob-a-Billy · Post by **Rob-a-Billy** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:40 am

Be XTRA careful with that needle fitting. I can tell you from embarassingly painful experience that grease injected into your fingertips is no picnic I would want to ever attend again. I think they took a Hypodermic for Hogs and retrofit it to the grease gun tip. It is an ACTUAL needle.

My neighbors still remind me of that day and the words that came out of my mouth - protect the children...he is in the garage again!

390Nut · Post by **390Nut** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:03 am

Rob-a-Billy wrote:Be XTRA careful with that needle fitting. I can tell you from embarassingly painful experience that grease injected into your fingertips is no picnic I would want to ever attend again. I think they took a Hypodermic for Hogs and retrofit it to the grease gun tip. It is an ACTUAL needle.

My neighbors still remind me of that day and the words that came out of my mouth - protect the children...he is in the garage again!

You know, that's not really that funny. It sounds pretty damned painful, actually.

Better you than me, though,

Rob-a-Billy · Post by **Rob-a-Billy** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:40 am

I hope that it is taken seriously - it was serious injury and serious discomfort. It is so easy to slip into a situation like that with what we go through to make a normal manual grease gun work correctly - THEN put a sharp object at the end... ugh. Also, it comes with a hard plastic cover for more reasoning than to keep it clean. It can be dangerous just sitting in the tool chest.

Forewarned=Forearmed

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