Grease Question, Part 2

Hi...

I'm the old guy who desperately tried to grease my brake bleeders, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but...

The bottom "fitting" sure doesn't look like any grease fitting that I've ever seen. Are you *sure* it is? (cleaned up, and viewed from the end, can you see the check ball? )

Take care.

Ken

Obviously you didn't read my reply. Your vehicle may not have grease fittings!! I wasn't joking when I replied the first time

Glenn

Well, yes, I did think you were joking. Thank you sir for replying. These little doo-dads sure look like grease fittings, and they sure are located in a spot that would have you assume that they are grease fittings. The other little zirc fittings sure allow my grease gun to fit onto them and apply grease. If this one is for looks only (meaning it was for a one shot grease infusion at the time of assembly, and never again), then I am really amazed at the engineering staff for putting them there. At first, I just thought that one side was defective, like a little bit smaller. The other side being the same smallness just bewildered me, like "am I supposed to use something special on these fittings".

I am also amazed at the collective >

I don't see any grease fittings in picture 005. The -thing- in the lower ball joint is either a plug or a snapped off zerk, it certainly doesn't look like it will accept the end of a grease gun. Pity that the shots of the grease fittings weren't as detailed as those of the grease gun...

Once upon a time, seemingly to discourage use of anything other than factory fill grease, zerks were broken off.

fitt> > Thanks. I did not get a great picture in 005 because I have to jack up

Since they have a hex head, can you remove them and install regular fittings? I have never seen anything like those.

What do the tie-rod ends have on them?

-KM

Why do you keep going on and on with this thread about the grease fittings. let me spell it out ok. They do not have grease fittings!!! They have been lubricated for life and then snapped off. Do not try to install grease fittings. This started back on the 1997 mini vans.

Glenn

Thanks. You did spell it out loud and clear, about the grease fittings being lubricated for life, and not to install grease fittings. I am not sure I would have known this if it wasn't for you, because I had hunted around (Google) for weeks trying to understand why I couldn't grease these fittings. The power of this group is the collective knowledge!

maxpower wrote:

fitt>>

Well, it may have started "again" in 1997 but as I tried to indicate in my previous post ("Once upon a time.."....get it?) the lubed-for- life idea with broken off zerks isn't new....it dates back to the

We are talking Chrysler Mini vans here. the mini van wasn't around in the

The irony.

Was it Tom or Dick that said, "I did not know that."?

Neither - it was Johnny.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

I thought it was Johnny that said, "I never kneeeeew that."

Exzerkly!.....

He said, among other things: "Ahhh - I did not *know* that!"

One of my favorites that he did (one time) - he slipped it by the censors - remember he would bring 3 or 4 people from the audience up on stage and they would read from a script to create a play. Johnny, as narrator of the play, introduced a new character "...Mister D. Big Fookendeel..." (read it out loud - you'll get it). After he said the name, he paused and looked right into the camera with a big gleam in his eye, and then continued the sentence.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')