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    Posted: 25 May 2017 at 7:38pm
I forgot to include the attribution for the material I quoted. It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_fitting
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Funny, it is a ZERK, a fitting that allows lubricant injection into an item that requires periodical lubrication. Nothing gets by experts here. LOL
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k.. t.. they look a lot a like before the morning pick me up..
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Originally posted by furpod

None. Your hubs have a lube system in place. The top of the "hub cap" pops off, under you will find a rubber cover, remove it, you will find a zert.

Elevate wheel so it can be rotated, while rotating pump until fresh new grease comes out the front.

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It is actually a Zerk fitting. The patent for the Zerk fitting was granted to Oscar U. Zerk in January 1929, and the assignee was the Alemite Manufacturing Corporation[1] (thus the eponymous names for the fittings). Alemite was already marketing ball check valves to accept grease supplied under pressure from a grease gun, such as for car and truck chassis lubrication points, both for OEM installations and for aftermarket upgrade kits which would screw in as replacements for stock grease cups. But Zerk's fitting was an improved style, less vulnerable to dirt and more forgiving of angled approach. Today, many companies make these grease fittings.
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This video will give you an idea how it works for manual retraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqbvwCJpNU
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It has two. Hopefully you will NEVER need to mess with them. Google "shwintek slide motor"
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Does anyone  know how to access the slideout motor in the 179 pod?
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Thank you. Something new every day. 
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zert = grease fitting
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Thank you.  Not sure what a zert is, but I will take a look.  I was thinking that a bearing buddy like on my boat trailer would be a great addition. 
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