Help,

Do any of you have a problem greasing your raptor's bearings? I have a good quality grease gun and use lithium grease but for the life of me whenever I hook up to the zerk fitting and start to pump the grease pushes the nozzle off and grease just blows out around the fitting. The harder I press the nozzle on, the harder it is to pump the gun and it still won't go into the bearing???????????? Any ideas?

 

Sounds like the zert is clogged, i clean mine with a needle or knife blade, zerts are cheap if they need to be replaced.

 

clogged fitting....go with something better than a lithium based grease...heavy dutiest nastiest stuff you can find....I use a chevron grease(purple).

 

or you are full,but check for it being clogged..

 

Many thanks guys. I appriciate the fast response.

 

Yamaha grease jerks are about $3.00. There are not the same jerk as lets say your standard car jerk.

Be carefull when pulling the gun off because one of mine pulled right off when I pulled the gun off.

One of my upper a arms will not take grease either even with a new fitting. Its looks full of grease with the fitting off though.

 

If you jiggle the tires and there is slop, it jerk needs lubed. I can really feel when mine needs lubed. I recently got 344 more hours out of my porch light than advertised....pretty good huh?