Grease fitting modification for suspension

[buckeyetrailfire]

Hey guys I want to install grease fittings in the suspension on my traifire . Can someone tell me what size to use. I was planning on welding a nut and drilling a small hole into the cross shafts and threading the zerk fitting into the nut. What size hole works best.

Thanks for you input,

Mark

[smitfire]

Anything will work. Find a grease zerk with threads first, then find a nut to go on it. Dosent have to be a big hole at all. Start small.

[WinnipegStPaul9]

OK, let's be totally honest. If you've installed zerks in your suspension, have you really ever greased them? Let the responses begin.

DA

[buckeyetrailfire]

Don, have you installed zerks in any of your projects?


Mark

[JDT]

OK, let's be totally honest. If you've installed zerks in your suspension, have you really ever greased them? Let the responses begin.

DA

DA has this got anything to due with the batteries in your smoke detectors?

[WinnipegStPaul9]

Mark, no I've never installed them.

DA

[427cobra]

Ive greased them..

1/4-28 nuts work well with 1/4-28 grease zerks. I go to Fastenal!

Summerizing is A LOT easier. A few pumps of grease and your all set for next winter! Even if you pull the suspension out every year...the zerks make greasing the shafts easier.

[kentuckydiesel]

I usually drill and tap whatever it is I'm putting a zerk in. Is the material too thin for that?

-Phillip

[ljm]

Yes Phillip. The material is too thin.

I grease mine.

[sledder670]

I drilled and tapped the welded them in make sure the shaft moves and not threaded to tight. Yes Don I grease them on everything I have.