Zerk quick disconnect

Stumbled across this neat little tool at a bolt supply store and figured I would share it.

Basically it is similar to a air tool quick disconnect but for your grease gun. I don't know if it just me or possible my cheap grease gun but I always had issues getting my grease gun off the zerks when I was doing my drive shaft or suspension grease points. I saw this and decided to give it a shot. It was $35 CDN, but after using it I feel it was a good purchase.



All you do is push it on and it kinda clicks in place. The collar slides forward when it clicks. Once you have greased the joint you pull it off via the raised grip and the back and it pops right off. It was definitely much easier to get off the zerks than the standard coupler that comes with grease guns. Most times it popped off with little to no effort. On a couple of my zerks it was a little more effort but still easier than the traditional style couplers. As you can see from the pic is is pretty much the same size and the standard coupler, so there was no issues with any of the 5 zerks on the drive shaft.

Now that I think about it all the easy ones were the drive shaft and the more difficult ones were on the control arms. It did not like the 90 degree elbow zerks on my UCA, but I had a bunch of straight and 45 degree zerks sitting around so I swapped out the 90 degree ones and it worked just fine.

I found a youtube review that probably illustrates better how it works.
https://youtu.be/PJdlY9Gn_aQ