Throw Out Bearing Grease Fitting

[M35A2-AZ]

I went to grease my Throw out bearing and as it turns out the grease fitting is facing up.

Is there a way to rotate the bearing so the fitting is facing down with out pulling the trans?
Thanks!!

 

[gimpyrobb]

You can't grease it with it in the truck. That zerk only greases the tran's input shaft it slides on.

 

[Flyingvan911]

Mine are facing out and I am able to grease them with little inconvenience.

 

[M35A2-AZ]

Thanks for the info.
I guess the trans shaft is what I was trying to grease.

 

[glcaines]

Pull the cover and grease the shaft. You can also turn the zerk for better accessibility later.

 

[Wildchild467]

You can't grease it with it in the truck. That zerk only greases the tran's input shaft it slides on.

Gimp,

so you are saying the grease fitting on the throwout bearing only greases the shaft and not the bearing itself? there is only one grease fitting in there for the clutch, correct?

 

[DEMON]

That zerk greases the throw out bearing first, then any excess ends up on the input shaft.

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[Wildchild467]

ok... thats what i thought.

 

[DEMON]

If you think about it for a minute. Does it make any sense to have a grease zerk, beside a bearing and to not get grease. And it only greases the shaft under it.

Doesn't make sense.

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[Floridianson]

That zerk greases the throw out bearing first, then any excess ends up on the input shaft.

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I do believe that is incorrect.

 

[RAYZER]

You can't grease it with it in the truck. That zerk only greases the tran's input shaft it slides on.

Gimp is correct.

 

[jrobinson5093]

It is incorrect I just replaced the trans in my truck and was lookin at the zerk fitting and it only greases the shaft the is no way for the grease to get to the bearin.

 

[DEMON]

So not like a highway tractor at all.

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[hndrsonj]

Yep, shaft only.

 

[glcaines]

It only greases the shaft.

 

[Hooty481]

Yea it's the same way in my m818. Had to change the throw out bearing and same way. Kinda stupid if you ask me but I wasn't around back then when they asked.

 

[gimpyrobb]

The only way to grease the bearing is to put it in a "grease press".

 

[Floridianson]

Guys and Girls this is why it is important to once and a while take off the inspection cover and with the motor running make shure your bearing is not spinning.

 

[gimpyrobb]

I guess one could drill a small hole in the bearing case and use a grease needle to pump grease in too. I would do it to the rear of the bearing so grease would not get flung out.

 

[glcaines]

The other problem is that if you could grease the throwout bearing with a zerk, there would be people that pushed in way too much grease that could end up on the clutch. I had an idiot to put a huge amount of chassis grease into my water pump one time and it all ended up in my cooling system.