I have a question about this bumper...

After a couple years the swing gate barely moves. I am pulling muscles getting it opened and closed.
How do I lubricate the swing gate correctly?



edit: This is resolved, thanks to bobzinger, JK Rocker and the jk-forum.com community. The answer was to buy a grease gun ($20) + tube of lubricant ($3) and lubricate it through the "zerk fitting". When I did this, very dirty grease was forced out through the top of the hinge. I continued to work in the new grease (by moving the gate back and forth), and keep adding new grease to the hinge until the excess looked somewhat clean. Now the hinge works very well. If this is your first time working with a grease gun (like it was mine), remember to wear latex gloves, and read the directions thoroughly. There are cancer and birth-defect warnings on these products.

Note: if your grease gun can be hand packed, shaking the grease tube until the grease falls into the chamber on the grease gun works a lot better than trying to get the gun's plunger into the too-narrow cartridge opening, I learned the hard way and got grease all over everything.

 

WD-40 Is my best friend

 

Use a Teflon tipe of lubricant it will last longer then wd40...

 

Do I have to remove the swing arm (or push it up some to expose the inner metal part)? If you were to do it, can you give me a step-by-step?

Just squirting it with lube doesn't help enough.

 

Not sure about the PJ bumper but does it have a zerk fitting to grease the spindle?

 

x2... No zerk?

My Smittybilt has one. You just hook up a grease gun and squirt.

WD-40 is a good cleaner and water repellant, but I wouldn't lube any parts with it. You may have to take off the carrier, then clean and grease it manually, if nothing else.

 

My PJ rear bumper has a zerk fitting on the back of the spindle.

 

cool. Check for a zerk fitting, get a grease gun and some lithium grease and grease that puppy up. I bet it'll open a helluva lot smoother.

 

Mines a Mopar but same deal. Its actually kind of nice that it holds its self open.

 

Don't mean to insult you but "2 years" and you just now noticed it might need some prevenative maintenance?
You might want to crawl up under your jeep with that same grease gun and look for more of thoses zerk fitttings. Your lift will have them, aftermarket drive shafts have them, tie rod ends and drag link ends have then as well.