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- September 18, 2016 at 7:07 am #46402
  DavidPrivett
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  a while ago I bent the tie rod on my foton 504a on a high stump, I got a pass thru shop press and straighten it out ok but I noticed that the ball joint ends on the tie rod are starting to loosen up. For some reason they do not have any zerks on them. Has anyone added zerks to these and if so do you have any suggestions about where to locate the zerks. The tie rod hangs down so I wonder about just putting them in the cap, I would be tearing them off.
- September 18, 2016 at 11:11 am #46403
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  Can you drill through the rear side and put them there? That should keep them out of harms way. Either that or drill the caps and put plug/bolts in, replace with zerks just long enough to grease them, then reinstall the plugs.
- September 18, 2016 at 11:26 am #46404
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  Another option, that I use on the excavator, is a hypodermic needle adapter for the grease gun. I just penetrate the boot and fill it with grease.
  
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- September 18, 2016 at 11:37 am #46405
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  I have one of those somewhere, haven’t seen it for years …
- September 18, 2016 at 2:33 pm #46406
  DavidPrivett
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  I got the part #’s for the rebuilding the ends, I was quite surprised to see it broken down like that I just thought the tie rods ends would be sold complete. When I tear them apart I should be able to drill them somewhere on the backside and place the zerks. It will be interesting to see if the parts I need will be sold like they are shown in the book. Three rubber seals on each side does it.
- September 23, 2016 at 7:41 pm #46412
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  well only the dust caps are available the other parts not.so I drilled and taped the steel caps drilled the nylon upper cup to match . It only takes a half a pump of the grease gun to fill, I will order the dust caps and reassemble. It is no wonder they were starting to loosen ,dry steel ball moving on a nylon cup with no lube and no way of lubing. stupid .
- September 25, 2016 at 12:20 pm #46413
  Bob Rooks
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  Was there any way you could take the slack out of it?
  
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- September 25, 2016 at 8:14 pm #46419
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  no ,unless I use a bit of real thin leather over the ball , I will see how long it will say tighter with the added grease. Maybe I should just order new tie rod ends, but I hate to cause I do not like the design. will have to ponder.
- September 26, 2016 at 12:19 am #46420
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  DavidPrivett wrote:
  
  no ,unless I use a bit of real thin leather over the ball , I will see how long it will say tighter with the added grease. Maybe I should just order new tie rod ends, but I hate to cause I do not like the design. will have to ponder.
  
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  If you installed new tie rod ends that incorporated your zerk mod, you would never have to touch them again. Just a thought.
  
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- September 26, 2016 at 9:45 am #46422
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  yeah you are probably right buy new and modify, I have been thinking about getting the metric thread pitch and see if someone else make the same joints but with a different design as far as joint lube service. but that I think will be a dead end.
- September 26, 2016 at 11:51 am #46423
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  Here’s a start. Metric tie rod ends with grease fittings.
  
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- October 2, 2016 at 5:32 pm #46432
  DavidPrivett
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  there will be a brief 2 month wait on parts for this, it is a good thing that this was not really service affecting.
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