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Old 05-13-2020, 06:01 PM #31
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Awesome thread.

As someone who didn’t grow up around doing a lot of DIY maintenance on vehicles all of these maintenance threads are so helpful for me.

Recently got a 2020 TRD Off road and looking forward to learning as much as I can and doing as much work myself as I can to try and make sure the job gets done right.

Slowly making a list of all the tools and equipment I’ll need.
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... what little bit that did push out of the spiders looked like dirty petroleum jelly...?
The grease I pump in is red, so it's easy to see a color change from dark gray to red when old grease is pushed out and replaced with fresh. I grease at 10,000 mile intervals or once a year.
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Awesome thread.

As someone who didn’t grow up around doing a lot of DIY maintenance on vehicles all of these maintenance threads are so helpful for me.

Recently got a 2020 TRD Off road and looking forward to learning as much as I can and doing as much work myself as I can to try and make sure the job gets done right.

Slowly making a list of all the tools and equipment I’ll need.
Nice! I have learned a lot from this forum. I started just like you. It's pretty damn satisfying to do your own work. Keep at it.
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Other lube points
Hi Guys, So much good info on this subject.
Is there any other zerk fittings besides the 6 on the drive shaft that we should be lubing while we are under there?

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Diagram of Zerk Fitting Locations


Source: Beginner Fluid Maintenance
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Is it ok to use moly grease on the spiders too? I've got a tube of XHP 462 I use for my UCAs.
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here we go again
It was a mistake on my part to start something in the other prop grease thread
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pretty easy to do. Once you do it the first time, you won't forget how to to do it.

A grease gun with a flexible hose makes life easy.
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no it is not.. stick w/ lithium on the spiders
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I have a Lock n Load gun and for the life of me I can't get to the middle spider zerk fitting.. wont fit.. tried jacking my truck up to see if it moves a little and it did, but not enough.. I need a regular gun for this one f'n fitting.
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I did this today. My truck has approx 60000 miles and it took a good 4 - 5 pumps to get new grease out of the spider yokes.

The slip yokes, I did about 7 pumps, nothing came back out of the zerk fitting hole when the truck was bounced up and down, but I did not want to over-grease them, so maybe I will grease them again in 6000 miles or so, after it has had a chance to heat up and spread out. (the truck is still not road registered so I couldn't do this today)

Another very useful guide, thank you OP.
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Done at 30,000 miles. Opps, missed the 15,000 mile interval.
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I bit the bullet and bought two lock and lube grease guns.
They are awesome,

I use Mystik high temp (red) for the zerks, . and Mystik moly for the slide yoke

I did not lift the car, just move it back and forth till the zerks were showing up. for the zerks, pump until old grease is out.
for the slide yoke, I did 2 or 3 pumps..
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