Grease buster tool

4020deereboy · Mar 1, 2011

Has anybody had any luck using those tools that are supposed to free up grease zerks that won"t take grease
Thanks Shaun

Anonymous-0 · Mar 1, 2011

I have one and it works very well.

4020deereboy · Mar 1, 2011

What brand do you have

Anonymous-0 · Mar 1, 2011

I have one and do not like it, espically with odd angles. If a zerk refuses grease I am done with it. Zerks are cheap. I take out the old one and throw it away, scrape out the hard grease, spray in WD40, install new, grease and get on with it.

doogdoog · Mar 2, 2011

Aloha,
Why would you want to ram all that junk into the part being greased? I would just install a new one.

Mahalo,
doogdoog

hayray · Mar 2, 2011

I have one and it works on some zerks that just need a little help which is the case most of the time, but if you have a frozen up king pin on a running gear, it ain't gonna freeze something like that up where you have a whole joint that is frozen up. I find a need a whole assortment of tools including new grease gun tips that often go bad - buy the good ones - Lincoln.

rustyfarmall · Mar 2, 2011

(quoted from post at 22:06:22 03/01/11) Has anybody had any luck using those tools that are supposed to free up grease zerks that won"t take grease
Thanks Shaun

Never needed one. When I encounter a zerk that won't take grease, I just heat it up using a small propane torch. Get that old, hard grease softened up and then pump new grease in. Works every time.

Bryan inIowa · Mar 2, 2011

lol,,I just spent 3 hrs last night freeing up a king pin on an Isuzu NPR . torch ,hammers , impacts , lot of cussing

mkirsch · Mar 2, 2011

Replacing the zerk is great, when:

1. The zerk is a thread-in style.
2. The zerk is a standard size.

In most of my experience, the zerks are either drive-in, or some weird special size that doesn't come in the standard or metric assortments.

Usually the zerk is on something like a baler knotter where the dust is worked in from the backside. Blowing the fitting with a grease buster simply sends the dust back from where it came.

NW MO Poppers · Mar 2, 2011

10-4 on the Lincoln tips. Best around by far.

NCWayne · Mar 2, 2011

Usually it's not the zerk not taking grease, it's the hole bdyond the zerk that's full of old hard grease or dirt. That said I've got one that I've used several times over the years and it seems to work pretty well. The main thing is to first pull the zerk and insure the hole is clear before you do anything else. Then fill it with some sort of lite penetrating oil first and force it in first. This will usually wash out anything else clogging the works up and it will usually take grease from the gun after that. I've run into very few joints I couldn't get to take grease doing it this way and those that wouldn't had usually been let go so long the joint itself had to be disassembled to ever get grease into it.

GRJ · Mar 2, 2011

No good...piece of $hit.I like some of the other answers though.New zerk...heat.Wish I hadn't spent the money.

kyplowboy · Mar 2, 2011

I picked on up a few years ago at the National Farm Machinery show. That $40 would have been better spent on pork chops and beer that day.

mkirsch · Mar 3, 2011

The dirt doesn't get in through the zerk.

It works its way in from the BACKSIDE, because someone wasn't greasing their machinery often enough. Frequent greasing pushes the dirt out, and keeps it out.

Grease busters work by blowing the dirt back from whence it came.

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