Struggling With Grease Fittings? Try This Simple Fix!

Dear Farmer J from deer farmerj.com. When it comes to keeping equipment maintained around your yardscape or your shop or just the grounds there, you're going to run into fittings that are really tough to reach to get grease into them. Well, Lock and Lube has come up with a great set I'm going to tell you all about. Stick around. [Music] Hey, Dirt Farmer J here from dirt farmerj.com. Part of good ownership of grounds and maintenance and home is just keeping things maintained. And if you've got even a moderate amount of power equipment, whether they're lawnmowers, compact tractors, a trailer, even your vehicles, all of them at some point or other are going to benefit by regular maintenance of putting grease in the fittings there. Well, unfortunately, some of those grease fittings are hard to reach. They may be shrouded. that may be close to something else where you can't get a standard grease gun uh coupling onto it or it may be way deep down in a recess where you can't quite reach it. Lock and Lube who makes a really great grease gun that you can actually check out where we did a review there by checking out the link above and we'll have it in the description below. But they've also come out with their LNL 210 quick connect uh greasing accessory kit. eight different pieces for all sorts of situations. I'm going to walk you through this very quickly, what each one of these do and why they may be of benefit to you. All right, let's walk through the kit here. First of all, it comes in this rip stop pouch, nylon pouch that makes it a really nice tool roll. That way, everything has its own pocket. I've taken them out here, but there's eight different tools, eight different pockets. It all rolls up. Or if you're the kind that likes to display it, it actually has some nice grommeting here that you could put on a pegboard or hold it in some other way. Either by the tool site or in your workshop so you know where all these accessories are. The first thing I need to point out on all of these accessories is they all have a zer fitting right in the back here that allows a grease coupler. And if you're using lock and lubes grease coupler, the kind that's got grippers around it, it'll lock on and hold up to 10,000 PSI, but now it'll hold on to each one of these. So each of these accessories all have a zer type fitting on the back. Now, let's start over on your left and work across to your right. As we look over here, these three right here all address the issue of where uh either the Xer is turned in 90° to you or there's something close to the top of the Xer where you can't get a standard inline connection and you've got to come from the side. So, let's look at each one of these. The first one right here is a shrouded down in the bottom is the area where you connect your other grease gun to. And then you turn 90° if there's a reasonable amount of space here. And then this nurled ring allows you to loosen up, get around the zer fitting, and then tighten down. You only need about a half to no more than a full turn. Don't unscrew that. If you do, all the parts are going to fly out of it and then you got a mess. So just a slight turn till you can get around it. Sometimes it'll hold right by itself or you can tighten back up. Now you can pump in grease from the side into the fitting. So, that's solution number one. Solution number two, uh, is just a straight on. Again, you have a zer type fitting right here. And this goes just straight on. Uh, so that if you needed to come from the side now, you can come up here and get over to the fitting. So, that gives you another 90°. This is a really interesting one. If you have no clearance and this is really up against something tight right here, you could simply take this, slide this in until it bottoms out and clicks. And now inject grease in the top and that's going to flow into the zer fitting. Now that covers our 90° approaches, but let's suppose that you need to just reach to the zer fitting and it's recessed or hard to get to. There's objects around. It's in a collar made in a PTO on a tractor, something like this. where you have two short uh needle type fillers that again you would put on the back edge on this xer your grease coupling to your grease gun. And this one's the short one. And what you would do, let's suppose this is the xer on your machine. It just gets pointed right there and then depresses into the little ball bearing in the xer and then you're going to pump grease into it. If you need more reach, then you can go from the regular to the extended length one. And you can see you get that far back in again. The point just simply gets put into the zer fitting right there at the ball bearing. Push. You can feel it give. Pump it full and then extract and you're ready to go. Now, our next one's an interesting one, and that is what if there is no xer fitting? A common place this happens is let's say the sprocket at the nose of a chainsaw. There may be a little hole right there, but there's not a nib there that would probably that would get in the way of cutting. So, this kind of fitting right here where it the grease comes right out. There's just a tapered rubberized really tough tip on it. You put that in the hole, pump it full of grease, and uh you're done with that. Now, here's a really interesting one. You run into a sealed bearing uh that's got a boot around it, but you know that it could benefit with grease. It's dried out even though it was supposed to be where you never supposed to grease it. Well, this right here, you'll notice, actually has a cover on it because that right there is a very sharp needle that you would puncture the boot, uh, pump it full of grease after you connect it right here, extract it. It leaves a very small hole that's not going to allow a lot of contaminants or the grease to come back out. And then again, you want to cover that and put it away. You do not want to leave that out without the cover on it. Here's our last one here. And this one's an interesting one. You at the end here, you can see a dimple that matches the shape of a zer. So, you would simply put it over. And what's the advantage of this? Why not use the other ones? Well, because of the dish shape and the dish somewhat of the xer, it allows you to come at a slight angle like that at different angles to pump that fitting full of grease. uh and a reasonable reach to do so. So, between these eight solutions, it's likely that you'll be able to get grease where it needs to go. I think Lock and Lube has done a great job with this set of tools. They really know their stuff, and the quality is very nice. If you'd like to check out the grease gun, their signature grease gun that has our patented grease coupler and swivel, check out this video where we did a review on that tool. Take a look and see if the lock and lube grease gun is a great solution for you. We think you're going to like what you see. Hey, thanks for joining me today. It's time to go maintain some equipment.