Come to think of it, I don't think we have ever talked about how to actually grease something and the problem and issues that can arise on your Morgan. It is always the basics that get ignored.

A grease nipple (zirk) is a valve. Inside the nipple is a small ball that opens with the entry of pressurized grease (and can close from behind with the pressure from the filled grease). A grease gun is simply any device used to pressure force grease out a nose fitting. Your grease gun multiplies your arm or hand pressure immensely which is necessary as you are often forcing the grease into spaces that are in constant
rubbing contact as in the Morgan front end. (I now use a small hand grease gun with refill cartridges).

In an ideal world, you will never see any grease about the nipple as the nose fitting, when well-centered "grabs" the nipple with its pressure and leakage is impossible. The world is not ideal however and there are different sizes to the nipples themselves (outside of different threads and angles and such.)

I found that all nipples on my Morgan "behave" but for those the stub axles you speak of. These were notably smaller than those used elsewhere and they required special care to angle exactly straight on and must be held sport on while greasing..this was difficult because the shock is in the way and one often has to turn the steering wheel to get it just right. I find that a flexible hose grease gun did not allow me enough
purchase to hold the gun properly and hard on the nipple. Recently, at Richard Rebain's suggestion, I stopped being lazy and changed the stub axle nipples to angled nipples and these positioning and attachment issues disappeared.

With these nipples, if grease comes out anywhere but through the spring around the kingpin, you haven't done much as none should come out around the nipple under ANY proper circumstances.