2012 - Volume #36, Issue #1, Page #39
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Grease Wheels Without Removing Hub
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Because he doesn’t have to take the dust cap off the wheel hub, it takes a fraction of the time to apply grease. He drills a 1/4-in. hole in the center of the hub. It’s the right size for the 1 1/4-in. long cold round steel piece on his grease gun.
“I had several tips made up for my grease guns,” Rankin says. “The tip screws on the end of the grease gun and has a small hole about 1/8-in. dia. The hole in the hub doesn’t have to be exact; that’s why I tapered the tip. Put the point in the hole, put pressure on it and squeeze the grease gun. Grease until it comes out of the backside.”
When finished, he plugs the hole with a small rubber stopper.
Rankin notes he has had more luck with his attachment than with grease fittings on the side of hubs that he thinks don’t do as good a job.
The simple tip has been a huge time saver, Rankin says, and made it easy to grease his wheels through the years.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jim Rankin, 1161 Hume Bedford Rd., Paris, Ky. 40361 (ph 859 221-9227; Jcr3rd@bellsouth.net).
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