Replacing conventional pickling by an epoch-making wet shot blasting has been investigated to reduce chemical emission excreted from the chemical pickling prior to a lubrication process of a soap and zinc phosphate coating for cold forging. This lubrication process is the most valuable, and it is widely used for cold forming such as forging and drawing. To stably supply the favorable zinc-phosphating, chemical pickling for cleaning of workpieces is indispensable at the first stage prior to the lubrication process. However, after stages of pickling and phosphating, a large amount of chemical emission is discharged to harm the environment. In this study, an influence of the pickling or wet shot blasting prior to the lubricating process with soap and zinc phosphate on the lubrication performance is estimated using a ball penetration test. The wet shot blasting is a mechanically cleaning pretreatment of the workpiece surface without chemical emission. After the tests, hard galling was observed on the insides of the hollow specimens under a severe condition, but the galling lately started at the deeper position on the specimens pretreated by wet shot blasting. This meant the wet shot blasting improved the anti-galling performance than the pickling. Therefore, it suggests that the replacement of pickling by wet shot blasting is possible. Before soap lubrication, the typical crystal of capillary hopeite was observed on only wet shot blasting specimens although under the same condition of conversion coating.