removing broken alemite

[40cpe]

I'm trying to remove the broken threaded section of an alemite. It is on the pitman shaft housing of a steering gear and I don't have room between the gear and the engine to tap the easy out to make it bite. It just twists in the hole. Are the alemites too hard for the easy out to bite? Anybody have a trick for this?

[Jack E/NJ]

Maybe too soft. Drop the arm for room. Jack E/NJ

[alanwoodieman]

maybe take a screw driver and use it as a lever to put pressure on the easy out. no alemite fittings are usually very soft

[40cpe]

I've been fighting this thing off and on for a couple of days. Sometimes it feels like it bites then strips out. Now that I have the hole opened up I think I'll try one of those rubber tipped needle fittings and see if I can put enough pressure on it to get some grease in it.

[Mart]

Sorry to be a bit thick but what is an alemite??

__I googled it - You're talking of what we call a grease nipple.

You could try tapping a suitable sized torx bit into it. It worked for me on a clutch bolt. EZ outs tend to be a nightmare if they break off.

Mart

[Ronnie]

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Grease zirk. https://www.google.ca/search?q=zirk+...DMrKjwSh_oSQDg
Can hardly wait to hear what the Kippers call them."LOL"

R

[JSeery]

Mart, I had the same question! Never head the term.

[Jack E/NJ]

>>>Sorry to be a bit thick but what is an alemite??>>>I had the same question! Never head the term.>>>

Troglodytes. 8^) Jack E/NJ

[Ronnie]

Originally Posted by JSeery

Mart, I had the same question! Never head the term.

Where have you guy's been hanging out under a rock holy cow!!!"LOL" Just sayin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_fitting

R

[Steve/IL]

I believe that Alemite is a name brand. The generic name is grease zerk or grease nipple, etc.. The use of Alemite is like calling all facial tissue Kleenex. If you are older and from the U.S. or Canada you have likely heard the name Alemite.

[JSeery]

OK, I'm old, from the US and worked on cars my whole life and never heard the term! Maybe it's a regional term.

[4dFord/SC]

Originally Posted by Steve/IL

I believe that Alemite is a name brand. The generic name is grease zerk or grease nipple, etc.. The use of Alemite is like calling all facial tissue Kleenex. If you are older and from the U.S. or Canada you have likely heard the name Alemite.

e.g., Alemite CD2.

[19Fordy]

Take the small metal file and bend the tang 90 degrees so it fits inside the fitting.
Hit it with a hammer to drive it in.
Then twist.
Keep doing this. Fittings are soft.

[ford38v8]

Alemite grease gun

[Dec211975]

If you have a drill that has reverse on it (counter clockwise) you could use a left hand drill bit, they normally will spin right out when the drill catches. Although not a normal hardware store item they are available from Mcmaster Carr and many other sources.

Regards,
Brian

[tiger.1000]

Sounds more like a gill to me.....now Mart knows what a gill is

[LOWRIDER]

New one on me. Worked 40+yrs at Ford dealers in Detroit starting in the 60's. Working with my old man he already had 20yrs working there. Some of the old guys (seemed ancient to me) had experience with model T's & A's. Never once did I hear one of them refer to an "alemite". Fast forward to the time I retired some of the kids there didn't know what a grease fitting was.

[38coop]

When I worked in a parts house back in the 70's , we sold Alemite products which consisted of grease fittings and grease guns.

[Mart]

Well we all learnt something.

You really do learn something new every day, and embracing these differences is part of the fun.

Mart

Oh yeah, got it out yet??

[Jack E/NJ]

Prolly buggered up the threads in the shaft housing by now. 8^0 Jack E/NJ

[JSeery]

Originally Posted by LOWRIDER

New one on me. Worked 40+yrs at Ford dealers in Detroit starting in the 60's. Working with my old man he already had 20yrs working there. Some of the old guys (seemed ancient to me) had experience with model T's & A's. Never once did I hear one of them refer to an "alemite". Fast forward to the time I retired some of the kids there didn't know what a grease fitting was.

Someone I can identify with!!! Reminds me of when I first went into the military. Was with a lot of guys for the northeast. Couldn't believe how many different terms there were for the same things.

[40cpe]

No, Mart, it is not out.

No, Jack, I can't get anything to bite enough to bugger it up.

I'm going to try to find a left hand bit today.

I would pull the steering gear but a lot of parts would have to come off to do that. I'm still holding out hope that the rubber tipped grease needle will work.

[JSeery]

I have never had any luck with the tapered twist type of easy-outs. However I have a set of straight splined extractors that work really well. You drill a hole the size of the base and tap them in. Have always worked well for me (in the right application).

[40cpe]

Update on the broken alemite, grease zerk, grease fitting, etc. The rubber tipped needle worked to get grease in the broken fitting, but the pressure on the grease just pushed a lot of it back out the hole. Thinking that a grease fitting holding pressure would be better, I finally took off enough parts to get better access to the fitting. The left hand drill didn't back it out, so I drilled and tapped the hole for the fitting. It took a lot of fretting, but I'm glad it is done correctly.

[Shu47]

Thanks for the update and also for the word Alemite. I am with many others on this site in that I had never heard the word before so I learned something new.

[Art Newland]

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Congrats 40cpe, you'll be glad you did the job correctly in the long run. According to Alemite's web-page, they invented the "zerk" fitting, so apparently that's what they called it! 8^)
http://www.alemite.com/catalog/detai...ifier=fittings

[Mart]

I prefer nipples.