Jerked by a Zerk

Today I spent three hours doing the spring maintenance on my riding mower: oil change, grease job, cleaning out the debris, checking filters, tires, etc.  All went well until I got to greasing the front wheel bearings.

I took the dust cover off of the first hub: no grease zerk.  That’s odd.  The manual did say not to oil or grease anything that uses a new UHMW plastic bushing.  I didn’t SEE plastic bushings, but without dismantling the front wheels I wouldn’t.  Still, no grease port: can’t grease it.  Move on.  Read more:

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