Greasing tag axle

[RogerIvy]

How much grease are you meant to pump into a tag axle?
do you just keep going and the excess comes out somewhere?

 

[Grummyb]

I'm going to guess it will depend on the axle and which parts your greasing but it it's similar to a king pin on a car I'd grease it until you can see the new grease coming out of the joints

 

[Speve]

Are you on an Al-Ko chassis? if you are the axle needs to bee lifted so wheels are off the ground when greasing and I believe the actually quote how many pumps of the grease gun you need to give.

 

[Figaro]

If it's Alko, I think there is a measured amount to go in otherwise it can damage the seals if it just oozes out.
I have a single Alko axle and today I put 10 squeezes of the gun into each nipple (wheels hanging)
If I were you I'd reasearch how much to use on an twin tag

 

[RogerIvy]

It’s an Al-Ko chassis tag. The problem is I don’t know the previous owner would have greased. I put in 10 squirts in each of the 4 nipples.

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[Lenny HB]

If it's Alko, I think there is a measured amount to go in otherwise it can damage the seals if it just oozes out.
I have a single Alko axle and today I put 10 squeezes of the gun into each nipple (wheels hanging)
If I were you I'd reasearch how much to use on an twin tag

Supposed to be 4 to 5 pumps of the gun, any more danger of pushing the seals out.

 

[pappajohn]

Beat me to it Lenny.
Makes no difference being a tag axle... Its only two single axles.

 

[Badknee]

Are you on an Al-Ko chassis? if you are the axle needs to bee lifted so wheels are off the ground when greasing and I believe the actually quote how many pumps of the grease gun you need to give.

I read on the Hobby Faceache group that you don’t need to lift the axles off the ground and from an axle refurbishment company in Scotland that the grease nipples are not in the best place anyway and they put new ones in where they are really needed.

 

[bigtwin]

From the Alko site:

Axle Maintenance

Ian

 

[phillipsheila]

AS ABOVE

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[Badknee]

Well worth a read.

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