Greasin td6, problem?

Just got my grease gun attachment for these
button lock fittings but it appears
to not work so well, all the grease just shoots out the sides. Also, it doesn't
even fit on the one for the front idler...

Does anyone have the part number for the
grease gun fitting from napa? On
the box I got, it says coupler 715-1153, then napa and balkamp. It was like $33.

Someone said it was supposed to have
a lever to lock it in place, mine
doesn't appear to have a lever. There
is some sort of spring inside of it. There are a couple of bolt heads on it, maybe
those lock it down. Seems like a pain to
have to carry a wrench though. I will
try those tomorrow.

The idea of using a pipe plug works. Later TD9's and 6's used that and on the lubricator you have a long pin and you would pump till the oil flows out and way you go. The 140 is a good way to go or you can go to GL0 grease which can be used in a gun. Beware that if your rollers are empty you will use a lot of tubes of the stuff. Like about 1 per roller and since they were not the life time seal, you will leak it out pretty fast. IH used to recommend that you lube once a day if you ran it much

The older greases did use wax on some of them--aka parifin based greases-- but the bigger problem is that over time the VOC--volitile organic chemicals have dissapated and now you have goo. Goo is a to nice a word.

By the way, I think the rollers and idlers should have track roller lube, not grease. Maybe the grease is to viscous to enter the fitting. If they have not been lubed in a long time, fill your gun with gear oil and pump it in. Probably leak out fast, but will help freshen the old lube in side the rollers.

Good luck,
steamingd

As for using oil, can you put oil in a
regular grease gun? I was looking at those
big bucket oil lubricator deals but they are
like $100+. I figured the grease should
be fine since all the newer td6's have
the standard grease fittings?