To bad all your friends require air

I'm never letting anyone touch my dodge

 

Its kind of funny, but now we are getting spamed on AM radio in my area with Jiffy Lube adds saying how trustworthy they are.....LOL...

You guys have convinced me. Will do my own damn PMs using the Christmas Gift Service manual as a reference. The only thing I might have a problem with it lubing all the joints. Are most of them Zerk fittings? If so, what kind of grease do you recomend?

 

I've never lubed my own fittings. My ladyfriend has always taken care of that for me.



Seriously, I have no clue what a Zerk fitting is or how to lube it.

 

"Zerk fitting" is the name given to the small round grease fittings that you would connect a grease gun to in order to lube the joint. They have a small ball in them that allows the grease under pressure to flow into the joint, but which doesn't allow it to flow back out through that fitting. Dodge used to use a lot of what they referred to as "lifetime" joints where supposedly you never had to grease them - and they didn't have a Zerk fitting to allow you to. So if you ever needed to grease them, you had to take the joint apart to grease it.
Kind of like a wheel bearing - motored vehicles require you to take them apart to grease the bearings, while a lot of boat trailers have a cap with a Zerk fitting in the center that allows you to force grease into the bearing area with a grease gun without taking it apart.

SLUG - those fittings that Dodge thinks need regular oil-and-lube service greasing have the Zerk fittings - but someone here more expert will have to tell you if there are some joints that they didn't put the fittings on that you really should grease anyway...

 

I've got those fittings on my trailer. How do you know how much grease to pump into them?

 

I don't own a CTD but the car I'm driving now is my second dodge and it goes nowhere else but the dealer for stuff like oil changes.

 

Based on stories that I'm hearing, you'd better start taking it to your driveway for servicing.

 

I always grease the boat trailers (with the zerk fitting) after every time out on an outing. I don't try to grease them immediately out of the water, but once I get home I inject new waterproof grease. (versus regular) I did this for twelve years on a ski boat trailer I used about once a week from April to October, and never once had the bearings apart and never had any issues...just kept greasing them every time I'd get home from an outing. I think the drive back home after being in the water would work the water out of the grease. Oh yes, I would keep injecting until the grease forced the cap the fitting is in all the way to the outside edge of the bearing cup. I do the same on my watercraft trailer, and after ten years it still has no bearing issues.

 

OK, so if I'm following you right, I keep pumping grease into the fitting until I see grease comming out of the cup? Is that right?

Thanks for the help !!

 

Wait - shouldn't we be on the Dodge Boat forum? (LOL)
First you should see the cap that the zerk fitting is in the middle of moving towards the outside of the trailer, and when it stops the grease will want to squeeze out the seal around the edges - either/or the inner or outer seal. And if you have any water in the bearing it should come out before the grease does. I usually stopped after I saw a little ooze out - although it will spray up on the inside of the fender a little when you're rolling, my theory was it was easier to clean off the grease than to change a bearing on the side of the freeway...