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Old 06-13-2013, 11:00 AM   #21
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Wondering if I'm doing something wrong then...

I apply the grease with a grease gun to the zerks and after 5-6 pumps it starts coming back out of the zerk fitting itself. Nothing's coming out of the bottom of the unit. But it stops the squeaking for sure! Thoughts?
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Old 06-13-2013, 11:36 AM   #22
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Wondering if I'm doing something wrong then...

I apply the grease with a grease gun to the zerks and after 5-6 pumps it starts coming back out of the zerk fitting itself. Nothing's coming out of the bottom of the unit. But it stops the squeaking for sure! Thoughts?
The cavity may not be full yet. When mine was new I pumped about 5-6 pumps of grease and nothing came out the bottom. After several thousand miles, and adding grease each 1000 miles, grease now comes out the bottom when I add grease. I also have a little snake of grease come out the grease fitting when I remove the gun.
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It sounds like you started with little or no grease so will take more than you might think. Nonetheless, you got them greased, use it and grease again after a few hundred miles, then regularly after a thousand(?) miles. Check the instructions on that.

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