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Water pump grease zert?

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Is on a 1949 dodge truck is this grease Zert on the water pump supposed to get greased occasionally
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We had one of those Dodges on the farm. We gave that fitting a pump or two couple times a year but the truck sat except at harvest summer and fall. Don't over grease it I was always told.
 
I have a Ford model A engine in my Sears Roebuck tractor. I occasionally put a squeeze of grease into the water pump zerk fitting. Some of them used to have a grease cup and used what was called water pump grease. You would fill the cup and just turn it a little.
 
FYI. The Zerk fitting was invented by Oscar Zerk in 1929. A patent was awarded but Zerk was working for the Alemite Corp at the time so they owned the patent. A lot of people spell it zert. I guess that's the way they heard it way back when. Oscar Zerk amassed about 200 patents in his lifetime and became very wealthy. Spent the last years of his life in Kenosha, Wisconsin in a huge mansion that he called ''Dunmovin''.
 
I don't know how many times I've replied to posters on forums about Zerk, not zert, but hundreds of times. I did not know about him retiring to Kenosha. I went to college in Kenosha, been planning to go back and see all the changes to the campus, and will hunt up Zerk's mansion too.
 
I've got one of those too. Never found the special water pump grease in a cartridge so it gets chassis grease. Just have to watch how much it gets to keep it from oozing out a slinging everywhere.

In the real old days lots of makes had those, and a packing nut to adjust the sealing packing. Orig if the name water pump pliers that morphed into slip joint pliers.
 
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