Yea that's the yellow you see in the pics, removed them yesterday and they were so brittle they broke to pieces. That's what I was talking about the grease fitting weren't there. They are already threaded but I'm sure they are metric and look fine thread. Also they look to be about equal to 3/8" - 1/2" dia.

If youre friends book spells them out let me know and I'll try to find them locally but I probably will have to order them

normally zerc fittings are tapered pipe thread, they do have a metric

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