[Healeys] Grease Zerk Confusion - Or, what a gooey mess!!

[Patrick and Caroline Quinn]

G'day

I was about to wax lyrically about the long lost zerk manufacturer that was
ostracized from the British motoring industry and set up in business with
Stanley Lucas in Japan.

Stanley, the black sheep of the Lucas family set up Stanley Electrical many
years ago. Then set up shop in Quondong to produce Zerks.

Anyway I decided against it because it's nearly ZZZZZ time and I've been in
the garden all day.

What the bloody hell is a Zerk? Is it a grease nipple? Should we use the
word ni___le? Or perhaps it's not Friday yet. Why am I standing on my head
downunder?

Hoo Roo

Patrick Quinn
Sydney, Australia    

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces+p_cquinn=tpg.com.au at autox.team.net
[mailto:healeys-bounces+p_cquinn=tpg.com.au at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Alan Seigrist
Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:25 AM
To: Brashear, Jack, N
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Grease Zerk Confusion - Or, what a gooey mess!!

Sounds like those are the very special Zerk-hua fitting from the famous
Wangzhongshang zerk fitting factory #3 located in beautiful downtown
Donguan, Guangzhou, China.  Incidentally the factory next door makes the
highly touted medical Hespan from discarded pig intestines which has a
medical death failure rate of ONLY 20%, not bad and more or
less acceptable for a blood volume expander (i.e. saline/plasma).

Can you tap out the holes and put in the other fittings?  Maybe have a
machine shop weld up the holes and tap them if necessary, it won't cost that
much to have it done right...

Alan






On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Brashear, Jack, N <
JNBrashear at garverengineers.com> wrote:

> Hi All, I just started to install all new front suspension parts (from
> one of the usual big suppliers) on a friend's BN6.  The new king pins
> and the lower trunnion big cup nuts came with new zerks installed.  My
> Plews brand grease gun connector will not work on any of these zerks -
> it's too loose and the goo squirts out around the connection, even if I
> shove it on as hard as I can.  My gun works just fine on the original
> zerks on the rest of the car.  Soooo, I tried to replace the "new" zerks
> with the original AH zerks.  Well, the threads are different.  What do I
> have here??  Are the new zerks metric or something??  I thought all
> zerks were created equal once, but maybe that's been changed by
> outsourcing.  How about the connector on my grease gun - are there
> different styles/sizes nowadays??  Someone out there please help me out.
> Sheesh.....
>
> As always, many thanks,
>
> Jack "Dry Joints" Brashear