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Super H Mike

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I have noticed a steady increase in problems with greasing fittings. I find new out of the box parts that wont take grease, wont fit the gun correctly or leak from the ball tip or the actual body of the part. I can go out to my 60+ year old tractors and grease all those fittings without issues. To make it worse, I cant seem to find a good grease gun tip that actually snaps on and seals , AND lasts. I have tried a bunch. Lube lock works good but is too big to get in most automotive applications. Anybody know of a really good quality grease gun tip fitting?
 
Given our wonderful worldwide market, I have found grease fittings with a shorter, fatter nipple which won't even work with my standard grease gun. Then throw in metric, and another level of difficulty arises. And my "Cat" imported Mitsubishi forklift has British pipe threaded fittings. I can't see the difference in the threads, but they won't interchange.

With the brine we have to drive in now in NY, you can grease a truck, leave grease all over a fitting, and the next time find the fitting rusted shut!

Now that my rant is over, the best luck I've had is with LubriMatic 05-031. AKA Plews-Edelmann. The more expensive one my local store had, Lincoln, was junk.
 

Yeah Bob. As you said about the Ford with Shibaura engines. They got a mix of metric and British standard tapered pipe fittings. Just about have the adapters figured out so I can install a set of standard American gauges on my Ford 1500. The oil sender is a 10 x 1.5 mm metric thread so I can add a tee (with an npt thread on the side) there for both senders and the block drain is a 1/4" BSTP fitting which I will just remove to get a temp probe in there (Can't get a tee in where the present temp probe is).

The bstp fitting has 19 threads per inch with a different taper and ridge on the edge of the thread while the American NPT thread is 18 threads per inch with a different taper and thread edge/crown. They are close.
 


While we are on grease fittings don't forget to grease your brake bleed fittings every time you service. No, I don't mean to try to pump grease into them, just get the grease around them while making sure that the little caps are still there. This can save a lot of time and even the need to replace calipers when doing a brake job.
 
Well they do make a grease gun tip that will LOCK ON , and if my one buddy can get it to work then i am sure you can. My buddy would got thru tips like M&M's with grease EVERYWHERE , i can not tell you how many zerk fittings i have changed for him . Everything you touched was covered in grease . Till i went and spent 32 bucks of my own money and installed this new lock on tip on the one grease gun , It has a little lever to push to put it on and release and it LOCKS ON and Pump away , no more grease going everywhere but in the fitting . You don't was them to leak then wipe them off clean BEFORE you stuff the fitting on . Now there is a down side to this new fancy tip , it is BIG and there are some places it will not go .
 
(quoted from post at 15:39:24 01/28/21) I have noticed a steady increase in problems with greasing fittings. I find new out of the box parts that wont take grease, wont fit the gun correctly or leak from the ball tip or the actual body of the part. I can go out to my 60+ year old tractors and grease all those fittings without issues. To make it worse, I cant seem to find a good grease gun tip that actually snaps on and seals , AND lasts. I have tried a bunch. Lube lock works good but is too big to get in most automotive applications. Anybody know of a really good quality grease gun tip fitting?
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gave up on trying to get the nozzle to fit on fittings. When to this ( www.newegg.com/p/2ZU-0088-005B8?Description=g1&cm_re=g1-_-9SIA4SR9F54008-_-Product# ) just push on the ball and grease, works on all fittings .
 
i still have a few boxes of button head fittings. i have converted to those fittings on things i grease more often. they probably still make them, but haven't seen any on the store shelves in years. they take up a little more room, but great fittings in my opinion.
 
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