Problems greasing a u-joint

[Gareth Randall]

I’ve just replaced the u-joints in my rear driveshaft with Moog greasables, but I’m having trouble greasing them. I think I may have the wrong sort of nozzle on my grease gun.

The grease fitting on the u-joints looks like this…

And the nozzle on my gun looks like this…

The nozzle fits over the fitting, but as soon as I pump, the grease splurts out from under the nozzle as if the joint is already full of grease (which it isn’t). Do I need to get a “needle fitting” for the gun?

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[Dave]

You have the wrong nozzle for those fittings.

[college man]

Stop at the auto part store and pick up some regular grease
fittings and change those out.

[Bill]

There is an adapter that looks like a big needle that adapts to the fitting in the pic. You might be able to change them to a regular fitting but you might not still be able to get grease into them.

You should be able to purchase the adapter from any auto parts store.

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