Greasing a Deuce

[HDN]

I'm using a Legacy Workforce lever grease gun. I bought it for about $40 from Tractor Supply and I hate it! It won't use the grease cartridges because the rubber push seal is too wide to fit down the grease tube. I'm going to call the manufacturer to see if they can help me out. I checked Amazon and people are having the same problem with $25 manual grease guns. So I'm having a $25 problem on a $40 grease gun

 

[simp5782]

I'm using a Legacy Workforce lever grease gun. I bought it for about $40 from Tractor Supply and I hate it! It won't use the grease cartridges because the rubber push seal is too wide to fit down the grease tube. I'm going to call the manufacturer to see if they can help me out. I checked Amazon and people are having the same problem with $25 manual grease guns. So I'm having a $25 problem on a $40 grease gun

Buy a battery powered gun. You can pick up a dewalt for around $100 to $150. Bleeds air very easy as well

 

[GopherHill]

You may also wish to consider what type of grease goes where. I suggest you use lithium type grease with bearings such as u-joints. I use black moly grease in sliding joints such as spring shackles , tie rod ends, and the like. Just my two cents worth.
TomC

 

[HDN]

How much grease should I expect to put into driveshaft slip joints? I've given them about six pumps each with a manual grease gun and I don't see anything coming out anywhere. Should I just keep dumping grease into the slip joint until it comes out somewhere?

 

[Mullaney]

How much grease should I expect to put into driveshaft slip joints? I've given them about six pumps each with a manual grease gun and I don't see anything coming out anywhere. Should I just keep dumping grease into the slip joint until it comes out somewhere?

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I would give it another 6 pumps and look again. Kinda depends on how much grease your gun pumps, but I would think you should see something happening pretty soon...

 

[NY Tom]

I am leery of pumping too much into these slip joints at one time. Not sure where it goes or how hard it is for it to squeeze out past the felt seal. Once the truck is moving and the driveline sliding in and out due to suspension articulation what you already put in should do the job. I suppose I fear it going to the empty space behind the slip end and preventing the shaft from contracting when needed.

Mullaney is probably on the right track. Pump a little more or leave it as it is and run it and take a look at it.

My Toyota FJ Cruiser has greaseable slip joints and U-joints. I put 5 pumps into the slip joints every 10k and I can always see they are a little wet with lube in the area where it moves in and out during operation when I get under there. Been good for 293k miles...

 

[HDN]

Since the spring seat trunion came up again recently, how many tunes of grease should I expect to put into a trunion on one side before it comes out around a loose trunion bearing cap?

 

[OTAEWCTT]

I am going to grease up my deuce for the first time since I've owned it. It's very long overdue, but better late than never, right?

I plan on buying some kind of lithium grease from either Tractor Supply or the local John Deere dealer and hitting the zerks. While I've run both manual and air-operated grease guns in the past, I've always only given each zerk two or three shots and called it good. But I've read some places that the old grease has to come out from somewhere so that you know that what you put into the fitting is enough. Other times you don't want to do that and just give the zerk 2-3 pumps and call it good (halftrack bogey wheels are somewhat sensitive to overpacking where you can pop their little axle seals if you go crazy with the grease).

Are there any fittings on the deuce in particular where I should be looking at old grease being forced out from somewhere? Or is everything a 2-3 pump kind of deal and move on to the next zerk?

what size fittings are the original standard? I have several grease gun tips and none seem to fit?

 

[HDN]

what size fittings are the original standard? I have several grease gun tips and none seem to fit?

That's weird! Whatever grease gun I bought from Tractor Supply plugged right into the zerks on my truck without a problem to do its thing. I don't know the size of the gun's fitting other than it snaps on straight and pops off when I bend its nozzle at an angle and pull.

The part number for the grease fittings is 15003-x, the "x" being a single digit that denotes different versions of the screw-in zerk fitting (straight, 45 degree, 90 degree, etc.). Here's an example: https://military-fasteners.com/fittings/lubrication fittings/MS15003-1

I hope that helps!

 

[Iron.Horse]

Having spent a lot of time using a grease gun... I have never seen a fitting that wasn't a standard end, either on heavy equipment or military. With that being said, once in a while there will be bleeders for brakes or purging air from a hydraulic system and those fittings can be a bit different. Also, I have found that new grease gun ends are a pain, they tend to "stick" and not always pull off a fitting until they get broken in...