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Hi all - I'm new to antique vehicle ownership. I purchased a grease gun, but I believe I need to get a specific adapter to use it. Does anyone know what I would need for a 1924 Single Eight? I've attached a couple photos of the fitting.

While we are talking about grease, I believe I'm supposed to use 600W grease. I've also read there may be modern equivalents that work just as well and are more available and less costly. What grease would y'all recommend?

Thank you!

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I believe you need a pin style fitting adapter on your gun. Here are a couple McMaster-Carr offers but theirs are more for the professional heavy use operation so are fairly expensive. You might be able to find a cheaper home use version elsewhere -- maybe on ebay. Others will give better suggestions on the best modern grease to use.

Thank you! Any other thoughts out there?

I think Howard pretty much summed it up!

I think Howard pretty much summed it up!

Respectfully, Packard Don, the first comment mentioned a commercial fitting that I can't use at home and no information on a modern grease to use. I'm not sure why you feel the need to make useless comments like you did on my other thread. I'm a relatively younger collector with no background in antique cars trying to learn from others. Maybe ask yourself if your comment would be helpful before hitting submit next time.

Packriots, regarding 600W grease, should this simplify your life w/ Brer 75 and 143: In the late '70s, a Chevron or Exxon-Mobil tech, himself owning an old car, explained to my late Auburn 12, supercharged '37 Cord, '35 Cad-owning, '50 Ford, '52 GMC-driving auto/aero mechanic/machinist, pilot friend that the black molybdenum-graphite chassis grease they and StaLube produce was originally intended for huge trucks in the hellish environs of stone quarries, and was a factor of e i g h t to one better than the orange fiber grease used from the '20s into the 1970s. My friend also used it in his '37 Caterpillar cranked twice a year to fire-guarding the perimeter of his 30 acres. Moly/graph is used in heavy equipment today, so your cars will do fine.
Hell's bells, if such grease and motor oil had existed long ago, might be more old cars around.

Unless driving your beauties routinely through monsoons, using today's readily available black moly/graph allows you to extend greasing intervals. Using such, friends with '30s cars, inc. Cords, Packards, and a '35 DeSoto Airflow, the latter not far removed, mechanically, from your '29 Model 75, doing long club tours, etc. do not grease their chassis at the 1,000-2,000-mile intervals in the owner's manuals.

Regarding options to the expensive gun adapters for the pin fittings you have, if you are not committed to originality and the fittings are standard threaded instead of pressed in, you could change to a regular more common fitting that accepts a standard gun. In addition to the somewhat expensive gun adapter, McMaster-Carr also sells many types of more common grease fittings at reasonable prices. You may also find them at your local parts stores too. If it is pressed in or has a non standard thread as did many early cars before standardization became more the norm then a change may be more difficult. Here is McMaster's selection in common fittings. Doing a search for grease fittings on their site brings up many other type fittings.

Thank you both for the helpful comments!!

If you are able to switch to the more modern/standard style fittings shown above, you can buy an assortment box of like 50 pieces on Amazon for like $10. On both my cars (1937/1954), I all replaced all the existing ones that were nasty, rusted, clogged, etc with fresh ones.

So much easier then fighting with a stubborn rusted/clogged fittings.

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You did not say why Howard’s information wasn’t sufficient but by reference, you indicated that it wasn’t when he did indeed give an excellent and detailed answer as always. Rather than saying what you really wanted and ay his answer wasn’t it, your comment was snide to the extreme and not just a little sarcastic. By your comment back to me, I can see what kind of person you are.