IPA Grease Fitting Cleaner
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Great tool
Used to fix a fitting on my tractor that would not take grease. A couple of fills with oil and the flex hose and it now takes grease again. Great tool especially if the fitting is in a place that you can't use a torch with to loosen up the grease.
December 30, 2012
Worked Great on Outboards
I recommend this to anyone with outboard engines. Often as Salt water gets into steering and tilt tubes the grease hardens. I wish I had this years ago to get penetrating oil into all my zerks before regreasing. I have it now and fixed a significant stiff steering issue. It stands up as a true American Made Tool. Quality, functional and lasts.
November 8, 2012
Works as it is designed
Tool shot light weight oil into zerks just as it was designed. One zerk still did not accept grease, but after a couple days, the lightweight oil loosened the old grease and it took grease.
August 13, 2012
IPA Grease Fitting Cleaner
The tool worked mostly as advertised but the flexible hose is pretty well useless. Additionally, I found that even using this tool I still needed to go buy a good pneumatic powered grease gun to complete the job. I still ended up with one difficult fitting that I could not lube. The tool needs solid angled extensions for awkward locations.
August 13, 2012
I take this tool on every job
I first used this on a old skid steer for a new customer that was never greased and had most likely 1 or 2 fittings that actually took grease. It cleared up every fitting on the entire machine. I use trans fluid and find that it works better then motor oil. Most of the fittings just needed a few taps and were cleared right up. Two fittings initially did not clear up. I unscrewed the zerk fitting cleaned out as much old solid grease as possible, put the zerk fitting back on and with a slightly bigger hammer cleared them out. This is another tool I should have bought a long time ago.
April 15, 2012
It Works!
I have a backhoe swing post bearing that I hadn't been able to get grease into for since I bought the backhoe used a few years ago. I had been thinking of making something similar to this when I tripped over it on Northern Tools.
I filled it with 30W oil. Get the air out - any 'bounce' means you still have some - taking off the zerk coupler makes it easy to fill and easy to 'burp; the coupler only needs to be screwed on hand-tight. I put it on the fitting which for me happened to be straight up with a clear shot for the hammer and I started hitting it with a 24oz hammer. It took probably 30-40 hits and a 2nd load of oil before oil started to spray out of the bearing joints.
I doubt I could have gotten this kind of force on the oil if I had to use the flex hose and certainly would have sheared off an angle zerk fitting - getting broken ones out ain't fun.
Since zerk fittings are usually easy to unscrew, it would be nice to have had adaptors to the standard zerk threads and then use them instead of the zerk coupler.
The zerk coupler showed some signs of damage to the rubber gasket inside after my whacking. For occasional use this shouldn't be a problem (you will remember to grease your equipment regularly now, eh?) but you may need to replace the coupler eventually.
June 13, 2011
This product is the best
I had a lot of fittings that were clogged this tool cleared them in just a few hits. its almost to good to be true but it is.
November 17, 2010
Works great
I purchase a used Deere 4310 and was performing simple maintenance on it.
When it came time to lubricate it, most everyone of the fittings where clogged.
Without it, I would have to purchase new fittings for the loader and backhoe, which is costly and time consuming.
November 18, 2008
30 yr old grease fitting 'freed up'
I ordered this a couple of months ago for a project I finally got to this weekend. These grease fittings were on a dump bed hoist for over 30 years and I think had never been greased since the machine was new. After freeing 5 of the six it amazed me that they were able to accept grease again. The sixth one was in a place that even with the flexible hose I was not able to force any light oil in. This saved me a bunch of time in replacing the old fittings and am pleased with it. It is very well build, nice machining and fitting 'O' rings.
August 11, 2008
Great Product
Would recommend to anyone that uses grease on an everyday basis!!
August 11, 2008