The plugged fitting is on the right side bucket pivot If I am standing behind the SEE. I assume that there is grease hole cross drilled perpendicular to the main bore hole?
...in theory I should be running road diesel to get there but once I am there I expect I will be running most of my fuel. I believe the concept was that the engine oil addition to the road fuel would potentially mask any traces of the red dye used for off road after I switched the system back to road diesel and let it run for awhile?
Yep, there's a perpendicular hole in the pin, meant to channel fresh grease to the bushing surface. It was that hole I had to drill the gunk out of. No Zerk tool would've ever made that passage passable again. Maybe a small detonation would've done the job, but at the expense of the tolerances between the pin and bushing. Of course, you mentioned that yours is already loose...
I had no explosives handy, but do have snap ring pliers, so I took the less violent approach.
While it makes perfect sense that the lower pin seizes up on the right side (bottom, when stowed), I don't understand why the upper pin seems to behave in a similar manner.
Unless neither side has been greased in a
long time.
I don't think you need to run road taxed diesel when on the road, unless it's in a registered vehicle. And, yes, used engine oil (especially from a diesel) does wonders when it comes to the coloration of the fuel. A few ounces in a SEE's tank would effectively make it black, and according to an analysis outfit I questioned on the subject, they would not be able to pick up any traces of dye.
But if you run off of a different tank, the dye would still be fully visible in filters, etc. An unusually evil cop could then claim that you switched tanks as you got stopped. Not likely to happen, but not impossible either.
For the small difference in fuel cost, I'd run regular diesel at all times instead of investing in dual tanks.
Actually, no I wouldn't. I will keep running red fuel, and the worst that's likely to happen is that a cop will tell me: "Can't you at least put a triangle on the back of that thing?".