Installing a MorRyde Equalizer

[Vintage465]

Getting ready to install a CRE3000 setup with wet bolts and shackles. My thought is the bolts should have the hole that provides grease facing down..............right?

Thanks

[Lynnmor]

If the grease hole is installed on the loaded side of the bolt, the hole will be closed and almost impossible to get grease in. Of course the loaded side is where the grease will do the most good. Do not expect the bolt to rotate enough to distribute the grease. Injecting grease on the easy (unloaded) side will result in a quick trip in and then out the clearance. My suggestion is to grind a groove in a figure 8 on the inside of the bushing so that grease will travel and distribute on the load side. That groove should not be very deep because the bushing is already thin and it does not need to be pretty. A Dremel type of tool with a small ball shaped cutter is ideal for this operation.

Here is a visual of what I am talking about: examples

[Vintage465]

gdweb wrote:
grease hole should be at either the 3 or 9 o'clock position.
from morryde pdf:
the grease zerk
may be installed to the inside or to the outside, this
is done at customer preference. Note the grease
exit hole location on the bolt, this should face
sideways to allow for ease of grease flow

Thanks! I recall one person really cursing a lot when he couldn't get grease in it no matter how he jacked the trailer up and moved shackles and springs. Anyone ever sliced a narrow slot down the length of the bolt where the hole is to spread the grease?

[gdweb]

grease hole should be at either the 3 or 9 o'clock position.
from morryde pdf:
the grease zerk
may be installed to the inside or to the outside, this
is done at customer preference. Note the grease
exit hole location on the bolt, this should face
sideways to allow for ease of grease flow