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Old 01-26-2005, 06:42 PM   #8
COBALT
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Originally Posted by Fred T
Sometimes the pressure from the ball sitting in the socket will not allow grease to flow. If so, jack so the pressure is not on the ball joint and try again.
I was just going to suggest that, but I've never had grease shoot out of the BACK of the grease gun. It usually balls up right at the fitting, and I have to have a cloth handy to collect it.

One thing to always try to do is have the grease gun fitting as parallel as possible with the fitting on the joint. Don't have it cocked at an angle.

What really sucks is breaking a grease fitting. I did that on an upper control arm bushing once. I had to take the pressure off of the bushing and replace it. That was a suck-y job.
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