Much appreciated thread.

Wish I could find 3oz cans and grease guns on amazon - the larger ones seem so wasteful.

Is the Lucas marine grease suitable for this?

I am planning to use two different grease types.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZmTCxFgMNQ

A nice video on how to grease spider and slide yoke.

my new 1200 mile T4R I checked out the drive shafts for lube what I found was the rear drive shaft had moly black grease in everything and the slip joint. the front drive shaft had brown lithium grease in the U joints and black moly in the slip joint.

I greased it with both types. so now the rear u joints have moly [factory] and lithium [me] in there.

front was lubed properly . as a person mentioned his dealer ship just uses moly I believe it . also if the drive shafts are with no angles those joints do not move much so they are not wearing. on the slip joints these do move much more so that is why the higher grade moly is used.

the owners manual says just use the lithium on all these fittings.

having used moly grease on other vehicles in corrosive environment I never saw any joint failures ,it is very good protection against oxidation issues and wear... resists water absorption quite well.

the slip joints had little if any grease in them. I did 3 half pumps till I fell slight resistance . after operating the vehicle I noticed now a slight amount of black grease in the slip area. before no grease .

one thing to never do is grease these fittings in cold weather . grease does not flow good and do damage .. I grease my vehicles just before the cold weather hits . then again when the warmer temps return .

A great advice. I only have 670 miles on the truck so I will wait until next spring before greasing the zerks. The factory did a nice job so I am good until next year.

If you can see some grease on the slip joint and u joints then that is good. if you see it with no grease then put a little in . you do not want the de icing chemicals in those joints.

I have a flex hose on the grease gun and I made a tapered tip on the end so it will fit to grease the U joints. works good standard grease gun not the smaller trigger type..

I did see factory grease on both slide yokes and u joints. I am planning to buy Moil 1 synthetic grease (for u joints) and Valvoline VV985 (slide yokes) per the original post. I will be buying two Lincoln hand pump grease guns with a flexible hose.

Thanks for the tips. Greased today.

I have been normally going to the same dealer for my service as living in nyc there is nowhere to do maintenance on my own car, I asked the dealer about lubing the driveshaft/grease fittings and they said they never do this. I called another dealer and they also confirmed that they no longer do this although they acknowledged it to be in the service manual. Do dealers normally not perform this service and for those that cant work on cars do you take it to independent mechanics?

My dealer also said greasing was not done without customer request. I do it myself.

Several years ago when my 4runner was in for a free oil change I asked the dealer to grease the driveshafts. I looked under the 4runner before leaving and they were not lubed. They put it back on the lift and from a distance I watched a guy lube them. He did not use two types of grease, only one grease gun. When I got home I looked at the driveshafts. Only 3 of the 6 grease fittings were lubed. I just greased them myself and will never ask them to do it again. Same thing happened to a friend of mine with his 4runner several years ago.

Do you all have 2 separate grease guns? I've never used them before but will be doing this maintenance on my 5th Gen. This may seem like a dumb question but how do you get the remaining grease out of the hose before switching from Lithium to Moly or do you just pump it a few times to clean it out?

I'm sure if you're AR enough to use 2 different greases then you're probably AR enough to have 2 grease guns. (I've got 2)

The Anal Retentive Chef

I use Royal Purple 01312 NLGI No. 2 High Performance Multi-Purpose Synthetic Ultra Performance Grease. I am not AR.

AR I am..