Greese fittings

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Alemite fitting are alemite fittings. Go to your local farm store and buy an assortment. They aren't expensive. If mine even give a hint of crapping out, I replace them.

Alemite fittings, Zerk fittings and grease fittings are all the same thing.
 
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Take an old fitting with you. They may be Metric. They should have a thread gauge there to verify threads. Then you can buy the correct assortment pack.
 
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Or Portuguese / portugeese ..... The only geese that don't fly ... :D

New fitting???
warm it up with a propane torch and "goose" it with some Greese.... :p:p:p:p
 

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Take an old fitting with you. They may be Metric. They should have a thread gauge there to verify threads. Then you can buy the correct assortment pack.
Excellent advice ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Many in the assortment never are close!
Zerks will go bad - but most can be cleaned and fixed with a little tlc.;)
 

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There are many grease fittings on your tractor but most if not all will be the same part number.

You or your dealer can look at the illustrated parts list to find the part number(s) and the dealer will probably have them in stock.

Probably end up being about the same price as a generic pack of fittings unless your dealer is far away


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When I get one with 'hardening of the arteries' I pull it and install a new one. Zerks are cheap, seized bushing aren't.
 

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Ummm no they are not, there are several styles, sizes and types.
That's like saying any bolt will work. :rolleyes:
Different sizes and shapes...true.

But one man working for one company ......funny how that works!;):)

"The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation[1] (thus the eponymous names for the fittings"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_fitting
 

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Ummm no they are not, there are several styles, sizes and types.
That's like saying any bolt will work. :rolleyes:
Fair statement. Different sizes, different thread patterns. What I meant was they all perform the same function, transporting grease to needed parts and keeping the grease in via a check ball.

I usually buy an assortment of Metric and SAE fittings. That way I have multiple configurations on hand. I have a ton of greaseable joints.
 

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Some years back I bought one of those grease fitting cleaner tools you put kerosene in and wack with a hammer to dislodge the dried grease, think Gemplers sells them but I haven't used it in a long time because when I switched from clay based grease to synthetic Teflon based grease, the hardened grease issue went away.

Thy work but don't need it anymore.