Grease Driveshaft - How far should I push it?

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Ranger9855

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I bought my first Ram (2016 Ram 3500 with ~130k miles). I followed Youtube tutorials for greasing up the front driveshaft (first time doing this). Zerk fitting was easy enough to find, and I can feel the needle tip going into the fitting correctly.

The weird thing is: I was only able to get one pump of grease into the fitting. Then, I felt lots of resistance and I wasn't sure if I should squeeze down hard to force it into the zerk fitting. Every Youtube tutorial I've seen teaches that grease will come out the other end (around the back side of the zerk fitting).

Is it expected that there is a lot of resistance when squeezing grease into the front driveshaft fitting (couldn't get any in with my left hand, but maybe I should push hard with both hands)? Is it possible previous owner never maintained this and grease has hardened on the other side?

Would love some opinions on this.
 

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