Zerks wont take grease

[fisch137]

The bottom two zerks in my suspension toward the back top and bottom wont take grease. I've tried heating them with a propane torch but it didn't help. They took grease at the beginning of the year. Anyone have any tricks or advise or do I have to tear it apart?

 

[YamahaMainer]

Same thing has happened on my 06 attak as well...Mine is the lower rear zerk...Why the hell would yamaha tack-weld these in place? They must have known that at least one was going to fail sooner or later. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[xman]

What I found on my 06 Attak was the fitting is getting plugged. Either with crud or may be a little smear from the aluminum cross shaft. There was nothing wrong with the zerk. I found if I removed the suspension and pulled the cross shafts the fitting would take grease. Sometimes just unloading the suspension ( lift the rear end up in the air) would work. My final solution was to pull the shafts and turn down the area near the grease fitting just slightly, .001"-.003". That seemed to stop give enough clearance so you could push the grease/crud through. Worked for 10,000 miles on my 06.

 

[Snowmobileaddict]

I wouldn't even call what Yamaha uses a zerk fitting. Its pure garbage.

See my posts in this thread for a real solution: http://www.ty4stroke.com/viewtopic.php? ... erk+grease

 

[Tycho998]

Only 2 of mine work at all. I tried to clean them when I had the skid stripped but all I did was break one off, cheaper just to strip the skid at the end of the year clean every thing and grease as parts go back together. Really cheap zerks.

 

[Riceburner]

Backing off the crossbar bolts worked for me.


Fit and finish too fine to let the water/grease/air escape at the end of the shaft I guess.

 

[Tycho998]

I tried putting grease through the zerks when the skid was stripped still didn't work.

 

[sherlock29]

a buddy of mine had an 06... right out of the crate the rear cross shaft was not drilled out under the zerk.... must have been a friday afternoon...

 

[fisch137]

Ok, tried backing the bolts out and still nothing. I'll have to move that arm maybe??

 

[sherlock29]

pull shaft out.... stick a niddle thru the little hole in the zerk(supposed to be a ball there but yammi doesn't supply those either) and see if it actually got drilled. as i said up above... we had one that had zerk welded on with no hole under=no grease.. if that's clear then try again... if not manually coat shaft and reinstall.

 

[oldsledhead]

x2 Try taking a tiny needle punch and push the little ball valve on the zerk in a couple of times, I've had them crud up and not take grease.

 

[quebecmoutainrider]

it might not be the zerks..yammie grease is very thin..so real grease..lol.. might be too thick..as far as heatting them..the heat will just dry the grease right up..thus forming a clog..