Can't get the tip in the hole
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Hey guys,
I am kind of new at doing all my maintenace. This week I took down the fairing on my UC 08 to get to the grease port in the stearing column. Bought I grease gun at Harbour Freight tools. When I put the tip on the grease recepticle it would not fully cover it and I ended up with a lot of grease not going in.
I bought the maintenace DVDs that sells on the internet and they show this step and it seems the tip of the gun covered the grease port completely. I was at the dealer and a mechanic told me the tip has like a half moon indentation that I need to work around the grease receptacle but I went home and I only see a complete cricle on the tip. Could it be that my grease gun came with a non-standard size tip? Are there different size tips for grease guns? Thanks
I am kind of new at doing all my maintenace. This week I took down the fairing on my UC 08 to get to the grease port in the stearing column. Bought I grease gun at Harbour Freight tools. When I put the tip on the grease recepticle it would not fully cover it and I ended up with a lot of grease not going in.
I bought the maintenace DVDs that sells on the internet and they show this step and it seems the tip of the gun covered the grease port completely. I was at the dealer and a mechanic told me the tip has like a half moon indentation that I need to work around the grease receptacle but I went home and I only see a complete cricle on the tip. Could it be that my grease gun came with a non-standard size tip? Are there different size tips for grease guns? Thanks
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check the tip.. they screw in and out on the outside diameter making them bigger and smaller.. yours could be screwed in enuff to be too small to get over the fitting correctly. Also while you have the fairing off put a 90 or 45 degree fitting in place of the straight one and you wont have to pull the fairing ever again to grease the bearings . Other than that unless you have a complete junk grease gun (and they do sell them ) id maybe go to the auto parts store and get good one (sears works too) ..
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