Lock n Lube Grease Buster Review

Hey, Dur Farmer Jay here from dur farmerj.com. It's time to do a lube job on all the tractor here. The trouble is one of the fittings is not taking any grease at all. Fortunately, I have this lock and lube grease buster. It's going to rehabilitate the zerk fitting and we're going to get grease flowing through there. Let me show you how this works. Hey, Dirt Farmer Jay here from dur farmerj.com. It's time to lube the entire all the zerk fittings on this tractor. This particular one on the bucket here won't take grease. So, we're going to try it. I've tried it a little while ago. And we're using the lock and lube setup right here, which I really love. It has a gripper here. This allows me to put about 10,000 PSI. But even so, let's go ahead and put it on this grease fitting, also commonly known as zer. And I'm going to start squeezing. And when I do, it comes to a hard stop. I cannot get it to go. Uh, and that's just jamming more uh junk in it. This is quite under pressure now. So, watch what happens when I remove it. You're going to get a of grease. All right. Wh There it is. See, there's the grease that was going to go in it is now here. Let me clean that off here. And what we're going to do, you have a choice here. Either you're going to remove the zer fitting. You'll need about a 5/16 wrench uh deep socket. In this case, this one's exposed out here pretty well. Uh some of their deeper, you might need a deep uh socket to do it. You could just remove that or we have a chance to rehabilitate it. But the choice is not just to skip it. It needs to be serviced. This is really a dry joint right here and it's causing a lot of pressure on the on the uh through rod right here. So, let's go ahead and use the grease buster. Now, the grease buster has is a really simple tool, but is just a beautiful tool for rehabilitating. On this end, you don't want to unscrew that all the way. You're just going to unscrew that enough that that goes around the zer fitting and then you tighten it back down around it so it can't pop off. On this end, there's a piston and you're just simply going to pull the piston completely out. It's got some O-rings right there for a seal. And now you have a cavity which we're going to fill with a penetrating oil. It's got to be uh nonerosol. We're going to put that in there. And then we're actually going to tap this and using both strike uh vibration light taps and the dissolving power of this solvent will tear into the the hardened grease that's in this and open the valve. All right, let's do it. I'm going to go ahead and fill this reservoir. All right, so let's go ahead and take this. This happens to be 3 in1 um fast acting penetrant. We're just going to put it in here. And I'm not going to put a ton. I would say maybe two or three good squeezes. There you go. That filled it up pretty much. So now what I'm going to do is put this in here and kind of keep it away from me so I don't end up with a lot of oil. There we go. So now this is ready to go. I'm going to take this, open it up slightly. Do not unscrew the whole thing because the inards and it'll come flying out. Don't ask me how I know. Uh but anyway, we're going to take this now. We're going to put it right on there. And then we're going to tighten up around that. And now it won't come off of there. Now, what we're going to do is you're going to tap this. You're not going to drive. Don't do that. You're not trying to drive all the hardened grease. You're simply doing shock vibration and doing light taps like this. And you can see it start to leak a little bit here because we're actually putting pressure. Doesn't take much. And I'm just going to leave it like that. Okay, let's tap it a little bit more. [Music] I suspect that we've actually opened it up already, but let's test it real quick. I'm going to pull this back to relieve pressure. Let's go ahead and open this up. Pull that off of the fitting. Fitting looks a lot cleaner. And then let's go ahead and put on our grease gun. Let's see if we get some Oh, yep. Definitely we're moving. I can feel it in the handle here. Let's see where we get Oh, there we go. Look at here. We got grease coming out. Definitely. This is now taking grease in here. So, this is a rehabilitated Xerk fitting. Pretty spiffy, huh? Instead of having to pass on it or break out of their tools, you can rehabilitate what's already on the piece of equipment. Well, as far as we're concerned, this is another great tool from Lock and Lube. And if you'd like to check out our video about this particular grease gun, as you can see, it's holding on by itself. I can just use this here and when I'm done it'll stow right there. Check out the review over here that we created right there. Walk through the features of it and where you can get it. And I think you'll like what you see over there. Until the next time, this is Dirt Farmer Jay enjoying a really well-maintained piece of equipment.