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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smkettner wrote:driveandfish wrote:
So how to remove it? Support the trailer and axle, remove the nut and pound it out? Is there a bushing in there that I would damage?
Yes, just give some support on the hanger opposite side of the pounding. There is a bushing but you will not damage it for pushing the bolt out. Bushing should have an interference fit to the spring eye and may need a drift punch to push it out. If you have a new bushing you can use a press to push the new in and the old out at the same time. I used a large C-clamp to push the new bushing in.
You obviously have not worked on Weekend Warrior stuff. My 2006 had destroyed bushings when I upgraded to the Dexter kit. Warrior uses plastic bushings from the factory.
I grease my stuff every year and the bushings were still shot.
