Was under the truck over the weekend, noticed a couple of zerk fittings and figured I should probably grease them. No idea when they were last done from the PO. Put my grease gun on them gave a few pumps and grease immediately was coming out past the fitting, like it wasn't even going in. Tried it on 3 different zerk fittings. Not sure if it's my grease gun or just all the fittings I tried are plugged up or just not using it correctly?
Haven't greased anything before so at first I couldn't get the gun head on the zerks until I looked on youtube and saw I needed to loosen the head a bit to enlarge the opening. After I loosened the head it popped onto the zerk. I then tightened the head to get a good seal on the zerk. Not sure if that was needed but thought it might be. Watching the videos, they pump at least a few times with no grease spillage, then as the fitting gets packed with grease, it starts oozing out of wherever. I'm never getting to that point, comes out the sides of the gun tip as soon as I start pumping which was making me feel the zerks are plugged. Just wondering since it was multiple zerks with the same issue, was doing something wrong or maybe I just have multiple plugged zerks?
Haven't greased anything before so at first I couldn't get the gun head on the zerks until I looked on youtube and saw I needed to loosen the head a bit to enlarge the opening. After I loosened the head it popped onto the zerk. I then tightened the head to get a good seal on the zerk. Not sure if that was needed but thought it might be. Watching the videos, they pump at least a few times with no grease spillage, then as the fitting gets packed with grease, it starts oozing out of wherever. I'm never getting to that point, comes out the sides of the gun tip as soon as I start pumping which was making me feel the zerks are plugged. Just wondering since it was multiple zerks with the same issue, was doing something wrong or maybe I just have multiple plugged zerks?
