Grease fittings

[bill h]

Hi. How many grease fittings are there on a 47 Ford besides the front steering linkage. What else should be lubed other than the fittings. Thanks

[al pa.]

my 47 merc has 2 fittings on rear spring,1 at u-joint ball behind trans,I think 2 at pedal area under floor.

[42guy]

I have a lube chart on my garage wall. I will try to scan it and post unless some one has your answer.

[Gary in La.]

1 ea on each pedal, 2 ea on the clutch cross shaft in the trans bell, 1 ea on the clutch pedal cross shaft , 1 ea in the middle of the torque tube to lube the center drive shaft bearing and 1 ea on the trans shift levers at the steering box.

[al pa.]

Gary in la,good response.You mentioned some that I had forgotten.I'm not sure if the kingpin fittings would have been included in his steering linkage group of fittings or not.Thanks.

[flatheadernie]

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how about the fittings at each end of the axle housings at the backing plates, for wheel bearings also shift column levers. ernien tx 46 chicken coop lol

[Bruce Lancaster]

Correct answer is LOTS of them, all over, including one zerk that gets a different grease than the other...I say get serious and buy one of the readily available repro books rather than assembling random snippets of information on the internet! See below for two good starts...

https://secure435.hostgator.com/~dlv...res.php?p=V-24 ~WLOGO.JPG - TYPE: LOWRES&i=V-24&s=0

https://secure435.hostgator.com/~dlv...ures.php?p=V-9 ~WLOGO.JPG - TYPE: LOWRES&i=V-9&s=0

[Bruce Lancaster]

Hmmm...links not work. Links were just to book section of C&G Ford, to reprints of Ford's little '32-48 maintenance pamphlet and the '46-48 version of the 1946 Service manual for Ford-Lincoln-Merc.
Actual complete information is not a luxury...

[Big Al]

Hi,
on the grease fittings on the ends of the axel housing.. Most owener remove the grease fittings and install pipe plugs. When it is necessary to grease the rear wheel bearings they pull the drum and grease the bearings by hand...most garage grease guns operate at such a high pressure that they blow the grease seal out. Without the grease seals, the brake drums get a liberal coating of grease. Not good.


Big al

[Gary in La.]

Good answer. Although later axel housings did not have this provision.

[Russ/40]

That kind of question amazes me. Why wouldn't a person just climb under their car and get familiar enough with it to answer that question? Not trying to stir a commotion, but some people just expect to get every answer from someone else without making an effort on their own. Nuf said, probably said too much already.

[ken ct]

Ive come to the same conclusion Russ. Too lazy to look on there own.ken ct.There are grease charts availible also.

[Bruce Lancaster]

And get a blasted book. Even the owner's manual has the chart, and that and the service manuals are cheap and easy to get in repro.
Not only are there a LOT of fittings under an early Ford, each Ford V8 has between one and three zerks under there that do NOT use normal chassis grease...so do you want to crawl under there and start blasting away with a grease gun??
And there are other lube points beyound all the zerks, like fan hub. Whay not spend $10 on some actual information?

[David J]

I would assume the one or three zerks are the u-joint & waterpumps . Also there was a thread recently about distributor noise and i think it was nothing more than lack of oil in the front bushing . Ya gotzta oil it ! Generators will let you know if you never oil them also . David J

Originally Posted by Bruce Lancaster

And get a blasted book. Even the owner's manual has the chart, and that and the service manuals are cheap and easy to get in repro.
Not only are there a LOT of fittings under an early Ford, each Ford V8 has between one and three zerks under there that do NOT use normal chassis grease...so do you want to crawl under there and start blasting away with a grease gun??
And there are other lube points beyound all the zerks, like fan hub. Whay not spend $10 on some actual information?

[Bruce Lancaster]

I was thinking also of the fittings some years have for the rear wheel bearings...as with the U-joint, most folks would see the Zerks and blast'em full of chassis grease.
Probably every old Ford on the planet has spent some or a lot of time with chassis grease in all the wrong places, and most have survived, but would't it be nice if everyone used the right stuff?
And, as you point out, there are lots of things on the lube charts that are not on the list of zerks a tall. Oil cups, etc.
The original question is a good example of why a book might be useful with internet sources abounding...
The internet will get you dozens of answers to a question like this...complete (sometimes!), incomplete, right, wrong, and all different! Pick one and have at the poor car.
A Ford owners manual or service manual will only give you one answer...

[Gary in La.]

He was asking about lube on a '47 Ford which does'nt have grease fittings on the water pumps or some of the other places mentioned. BUT I do agree with advice on obtaining a manual with a lube chart for his particular car and highly recommend a trip under the car with a light looking for lube points.

[David J]

You are correct sir . My bad but isn't it possible this thread may be read by folks that own other year vehicles ? Anyway i was curious about Bruces bit about 1 or 3 zerks . His knowledge pool seem's the deepest of all to me and i wanted to be sure i wasn't missing something . Also if you use hi temp chassis grease liberally in your waterpumps on earlier cars you WILL cause overheating problems eventually as it plugs the radiator up . Yes i learned this the wrong way . Back in the mid 70's i was driving a 33 as my only wheels that had a leaky waterpump . Genius me found that if you gave it a few pumps of grease it wouldn't leak for a day or two . It took a while but the car started overheating in Feb in MN . PLUGGED radiator . If this saves even one person from having to take a radiator out and clean the MESS out inside isn't that what this site is about ? Bruce - Never thought bout the rear wheel bearing zerks as i never use them . David J

Originally Posted by Gary in La.

He was asking about lube on a '47 Ford which does'nt have grease fittings on the water pumps or some of the other places mentioned.

[Bruce Lancaster]

I would bet there isn't an early Ford on the planet that hasn't had the U-joint pumped full of chassis grease by a filling station or a chartless owner...use of the Zerk makes it almost inevitable for those without basic resources!
Fan, generator, covered springs (3 Zerks each, I think!), pedals, fan hubs on some cars are all places likely to be missed by someone not deep into these crates. The Ford Chart covers more than grease points of course, but the version for '46 V8 I have open uses all the letters from A-Z, some of them with a paragraph of writing, to cover what Ford considered the grease monkey's responsibility! There is very little on the list that most younger people with their first old car could even imagine without a chart.
Most old Fords came with their own grease guns from Ford, and all the info is in the glove compartment owner's manual, all for a reason!
Only a severely disturbed elderly coot could go under there and get it all right without a chart! Even by the 1960's, filling station grease monkeys were getting to be too young to correctly employ all thge fittings down there.

[oldford2]

[Bruce Lancaster]

The good old orange Service manual! Now it's safe to crawl under that '47!

[bill h]

Sorry to cause such a fuss. Just trying to find out about a few fittings.Example My u joint cover does not have a fitting or even a hole for a fitting. ?? I now have a new one that does. I can not find the fittings or plugs at the rear axle bearings but i can pull the drums for that. I was just checking to see if they all had fittings. Thanks to all who helped.

[Bruce Lancaster]

Forget the rear bearing plugs...I don't believe you will find even plugs there. Pack the rear bearings by hand with good wheel bearing grease, let your grandchildren do the next lube there. I would assume Ford killed off those fittings because of grease monkeys putting in chassis grease. They had a similar problem with early Model A's... the steering oil was put in via zerk at the factory, so mechanics would pump the steering full of chassis lube and quickly kill the gears! I have no idea why they never removed the zerk on the U-joint, which clearly had the same problem. Your car probably just had two of one half rather than a pair of U joint covers.