Can't get grease into shackle bolts
I was going around doing my annual greasing of my shackle bolts on my 2004 Weekend Warrior and found that a couple of the bolts I was unable to pump grease into the zerks. I assumed the zerks were st...
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driveandfish wrote:
Not to hijack this but I am still having the same problem. I have gotten grease in all the bolts except one. I have tried with it jacked up and on the ground and many positions in between. One bolt will not take grease. This is the first time I have greased these. I am not sure what the previous owner did. Can I pull the zirk and clean the bore somehow?
If the bolt has never accepted grease you may have one like I had. When the bolt was drilled it did not intersect the cross hole. Of the 14 bolts I had three were like this. I was lucky enough to find this problem before I had installed them.. I recommend anyone that does the conversion to wet bolts to remove the zerk and check for the drilling problem and clean the bolt as there may be some machining junk left in the bolt.
Remove the zerk on the one you can grease and compare how deep the hole is compared to the one that will not take grease.
