frosty

Alright, so I'm trying to grease my adjustable tension rods from Courtesy Nissan. What is up with the mini-me grease fitting? What am I suppose to use, its way to small for the standard Zirk coupler, and the needle adapter will not go far enough in? Any one know, rods are major dry, don't even want to drive it until they get some grease.

Thanks.

91zxtt

I originally purchase my tension rods from courtesy, but I wasn't hapy with the qaulity. I returned them and purchased from SPL. The quality is far superior, IMO.

frosty

I wanted the SPLs, but at the time they were back ordered like 4-6 weeks and my rods were completely blown out. They had worn the tires down to cords in a matter of weeks. I am going to use SPL for the rest of the suspension, and may even swap to their rods while I'm at it since they're a fairly cheap item.

I got the grease fitting out, it was just press fit in, it looks like a cap head crew, instead of a ball like a normal zirk. Going to the part store today to see if I can find a zirk to replace it.

I am the only only one with these tension rods?! Or just the only one greasing them?

What kind of grease fitting was on the SPLs?

frosty

Guy at the parts store called it a needle zirk fitting. Sold me an adapter for my grease gun that has a conical rubber tip that presses inside of the fitting. It works, but not very well.

Barry'Z(NJ)

Thanks for the info, what I have been doing is just loosening the lock nut and slathering grease around the end link joint and rocking the end link back and forth to get the grease worked in, then center the end link and tighten the lock nut, ROYAL PITA. I think I may replace the end links with the new ones from power trix.

Peace