Greasing Ball Joint
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Greasing Ball Joint
I am having trouble greasing the driver side upper ball joint. It will not take grease. I have tried taking weight off of that wheel, and rotating the wheel back and forth. Any thoughts?
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take the grease fitting off and see if grease goes through it. If not replace it with a new one. If it does then take a bit of wire and try to clean any dried grease out of the hole in the joint, replace the fitting and see if it takes grease.
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It's probably the grease fitting, but if not, do as Lazy K says and you might also apply some heat to it to soften the grease that is already in there. I have to do that sometimes on the rear wheel on my shredder to get it to take grease.
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That sounds like a good course of action guys. I'll mess with it in the next few days.
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