I ended up buying a needle adapter that snaps on the coupler of my grease gun. It works very well for the front driveshaft zerks. The standard small diameter coupler works fine for all the fittings on the rear driveshaft.


Ken

 

Hah, I've never seen any advice as to grinding it down or turning it. But I have seen plenty of info on here about the needle adaptors.

Try doing a search on here for this and other subjects. There's plenty of information online here that more than pertains to this subject including links to purchasing avenues and types of grease suggested as well as caps for the Zerk fittings.

CJ

 

Dealers

How do the dealers lubricate those front Zerks? Anybody know?

 

I don't know about the "dealers" but every "decent" shop I know uses the long needle adapter mentioned by Ken. I've got a picture of one in my photos if you want to compare the various grease gun tips. I ground my "normal small fitting" nose down to .480 and it works fine on most hard to get at zerks. It worked fine on the front Tundra fittings until I put the transmission skid plate on and now I use the long needle adapter, as it's a lot easier to reach the zerk with the extended body on the adapter. When I ground my fitting down, I did so by trial and error to make it fit the tight spots on my old 4X4 and had no idea of the actual diameter until now as I just measured it for you as a go by.

 

appreciation

I appreciate that dimension, Joe. I'll go for .480 and see how it works. PR

 

Re: appreciation

I appreciate that dimension, Joe. I'll go for .480 and see how it works. PR

Get the needle adapter from sears (it's the *only* way to go - you'll use it on all the zerks) and I'd also put some plastic/rubber Zerk caps on. They are so cheap and they keep the zerks clean so you'll never blow in old dirty grease.

Alan

 

Got the number!

Hey,
I first gound the tip of a grease gun.Just made four flat sides on a bench grinder.
I still had difficulty getting to the double cardan grease fittings.So I got this at aTS ers suggestion.
Sears sells a Lubrimatic #11867
Sears has9 50019 on the reciept.
I thing it was less than $10.
Also a good tip is the zerk caps.
I got them at AVlube.com
RichR

 

Re: Got the number!

Hey,
I first gound the tip of a grease gun.Just made four flat sides on a bench grinder.
I still had difficulty getting to the double cardan grease fittings.So I got this at aTS ers suggestion.
Sears sells a Lubrimatic #11867
Sears has9 50019 on the reciept.
I thing it was less than $10.
Also a good tip is the zerk caps.
I got them at AVlube.com
RichR

A little helper update on grease gun adapters.
All of the sudden after 4 1/2 years I can't get grease in the foward double cardain joint zerk.The zerk is good just can't get the angle.It must have moved.
So I search on the WWW and find this:
4 inch needle nose adapter(#B-20210324) at RedHill general store for $9.57.
@1-800-251-8824.
Finally tried it.
It works well .
It should work on all the drive shaft zerks.
RichR