Grease nipples won't take grease.....

[Ceri]

Morning all... I have a Collins 10T tipping trailer & the pivot pins on each axel have a grease nipple but guess wat they won't take grease......!! Taken them out & put new nipples in but still no luck.... So without taking the whole pin out any special tricks to get the grease in there.........???? Sooooo bloody annoying

 

[Will 1594]

Take the pin out , find grease hole ,
electric drill small bit drill sh!t out , take nipple out ,drill down grease hole ,
put in vice nipple back in , best grease gun end on nipple and hopefully pump away

 

[marcot]

Jack the axle up a bit

 

[Barleymow]

Squirt we 40 or something similar in the hole behind the nipple

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Unless you can warm the pin up in situ and pump grease in it’s a pin out job unfortunately

 

[Ffermer Bach]

there is a tool that you put oil in, then fit to the grease nipple and hammer the end, this drives the oil under pressure through the grease channel, and hopefully clears it for the grease to go through, worth a try anyway, easier than dismantling, I always like to try the easier way first

Draper Expert 16155 Grease Nipple Unblocker

Draper Expert - 16155 - Draper Expert 16155 Grease Nipple Unblocker - Expert Quality, designed to be tapped with a hammer, which forces either paraffin or a

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[daveydiesel1]

Fill ur grease gun with diesel. Worked for me in the past

 

[wr.]

Slightly off topic here but Herbert Collins of Collins trailers and other machinery is being buried today.

 

[milkloss]

Take out nipple and dig crap out and use a bit of carb clean. Use a pointed pick to clean the edge at the bottom of the hole. Make sure nipple works before bolting back in.

 

[Steevo]

Slightly off topic here but Herbert Collins of Collins trailers and other machinery is being buried today.

Sad times.

I have two of their trailers and am very pleased with them.

I thank him for their service.

 

[Gone Shooting]

Lovely man - always joking and fun to be with. Enjoyed his shooting and always had us in stitches when he came here and did a little turn at the shoot dinner - its two hours before the funeral and the village is already filling up with cars .

 

[DeeGee]

If conditions are safe to do so then the best and quickest remedy I have seen is a blowtorch to evenly heat up the housing.
This method seems to melt any rubbish or hard grease in there, and the grease gun will then invariably pump the new grease straight in.

 

[Suckndiesel]

If conditions are safe to do so then the best and quickest remedy I have seen is a blowtorch to evenly heat up the housing.
This method seems to melt any rubbish or hard grease in there, and the grease gun will then invariably pump the new grease straight in.

Do the same here, take grease nipple out and clean hole out, if that doesn’t work heat normally sorts it.

 

[Rs chunk]

Unscrew the nipple and get a small drill bit and put it in the hole and twirl with your fingers to take out old crap that’s dried out and gone hard squirt some wd in about it and put a new nipple back and try grease gun again, most times it works sometimes even oiling the pin with oil can or putting diesel on it will work its way in and after a while soft the crap and it will take grease

 

[Flatlander]

If all else fails and you have to remove the pin grind a very shallow flat spot across the pin except for a small distance from the edge and have it lined up with the grease fitting. Helps spread the grease and will stop the hole from being blanked off.

 

[czechmate]

there is a tool that you put oil in, then fit to the grease nipple and hammer the end, this drives the oil under pressure through the grease channel, and hopefully clears it for the grease to go through, worth a try anyway, easier than dismantling, I always like to try the easier way first

Draper Expert 16155 Grease Nipple Unblocker

Draper Expert - 16155 - Draper Expert 16155 Grease Nipple Unblocker - Expert Quality, designed to be tapped with a hammer, which forces either paraffin or a

www.rapidonline.com

I had one of those. It seemed a great idea.
I never had any success with it

 

[Ceri]

I'll have a fiddle with some of the ideas on here.....
Many thanks to you all its always good to see in this crazy bloody world we seem to be living in atm that there's still people to give help & advice......

 

[steveR]

Many years ago*, I learned the trick of removing the grease nipple and putting it on a piece of steel, then heating it with oxy/propane torch until the old grease burned off. Works every time.

If the shaf being lubed is solid, then plus gas is best, then diesel, left overnight if possible.






*Keeping a Standen beet harvester going was a lesson every day... usually when it was snowing!

 

[Lazy Sod]

Slightly off topic here but Herbert Collins of Collins trailers and other machinery is being buried today.

It must have been about 1980 when a local dealer drove me up to the Collins factory at Pontrilas to see about a pair of Silage Trailers, which I did buy. We were shown round buy his son Phil who also told us about his rally driving (I learnt later that he was very good at it too).

I met Herbie subsequently at his stand at the Bath & West Show several times, he was always very hospitable. Herbie was a lovely man.

 

[Ashtree]

You have the wrong grease nipples. Those are for livestock farmers.