FYI. Check those grease nipples

powersrp

Member

Equipment
B3350
Apr 2, 2017
95
2
8
Indian River MI
I have 650 hrs on my tractor and grease it regularly, while cleaning things up the other day i noticed one grease nipple gone on the FEL and another a few turns from falling out, had to remove loader pins to pull arms out far enough to get new grease joint on. 11mm wrench and check them all. Not something i did when i initially received tractor.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
 

GeoHorn

Well-known member
Lifetime Member

Equipment
M4700DT, LA1002FEL, Ferguson5-8B Compactor-Roller, 10KDumpTrailer, RTV-X900
May 18, 2018
5,573
2,939
113
Texas
“Zerk” fittings are made in Metric and SAE standards. I believe most Kubota FELs are made in GA and are SAE. (But keep that in mind.)
 

Bark

Active member

Equipment
L4701/FM2560LA765/BB2560Pittsburgh disk Titan P forks
Feb 18, 2020
202
54
28
North CA
Never thought about checking them.
 

SidecarFlip

Banned

Equipment
M9000HDCC3, M9000HD, Kubota GS850 Sidekick
Oct 28, 2018
7,197
546
83
USA
The primary reason why they get loose is, your grease gun couplers jaws are too tight and they grip the nipple on the fitting to tightly and when you cannot get the coupler to release, you turn it and that causes the fittings to get loose.
 

DeepWoods

Active member

Equipment
B2650HSDC Woodland Mills WC68 Wood Chipper
Apr 10, 2019
325
247
43
Bigfork Minnesota
I received my B2650HSDC just over a year ago, I had to tighten every zerk on the backhoe. Once tightend, I haven't had any problems since.
 

WFM

Well-known member

Equipment
L3800
Apr 5, 2013
1,177
483
83
Porter Maine
A couple years ago I bought a Dewalt cordless 20v grease gun. Makes greasing by ones self very easy.
I had wanted to try one for a while. Works great on sxs's and atv's too.
 

powersrp

Member

Equipment
B3350
Apr 2, 2017
95
2
8
Indian River MI
The grease nipples are 11mm, thats not a guess, and on the nipple i tightened and the one i replaced you need a wrench after getting it started, i guess i was lucky it stayed put for a few yrs before falling out.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
 

GeoHorn

Well-known member
Lifetime Member

Equipment
M4700DT, LA1002FEL, Ferguson5-8B Compactor-Roller, 10KDumpTrailer, RTV-X900
May 18, 2018
5,573
2,939
113
Texas
The grease nipples are 11mm, thats not a guess, and on the nipple i tightened and the one i replaced you need a wrench after getting it started, i guess i was lucky it stayed put for a few yrs before falling out.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
I dont believe there is ANY SUCH THING as an 11mm zerk. You might have used an 11mm wrench on it... but there are SEVERAL metric zerks which use that size wrench, all of them are M10 size: http://waliandsons.com/product/metric-thread-grease-nipple/

Here are PIPE THREAD zerks chart: http://waliandsons.com/product/npt-ptf-thread-grease-nipples/

Here is SAE zerks chart: http://waliandsons.com/product/unf-sae-j-534-grease-nipples/

Here is BSP (British): http://waliandsons.com/product/bsp-thread-grease-nipple/
 
Last edited:

Pau7220

Well-known member

Equipment
L3650 GST, Landpride TL250 FEL w/ Piranha, 6' King Kutter, GM1084R Finish
Aug 1, 2017
785
276
63
Scranton, PA
7/16" = 11.125mm ... nearly a perfect match.
 

whitetiger

Moderator
Staff member

Equipment
Kubota tech..BX2370, RCK60, B7100HST, RTV900 w plow, Ford 1100 FWA
Nov 20, 2011
2,542
1,059
113
Kansas City, KS
The loader was built in Georga, the zerks are typically 1/4"x28 UNF and wrench size is 7/16". An 11mm will also fit the hex flats.