Guys, what a pain it is to grease all joints when car is not on lift or ramps. Purchased Wurth cool grease gun plus two types of grease. It took a lot of grease in it, especially Yoke joins. I know manual says to grease every 5K miles. What interval you guys suggest for rough, bumpy roads?
Greased car today
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CJ3Flyr
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Unless you fjord deep water all the time I think 5k is a good interval even for the Armenian roads.
When you do subsequent servicing of the slipyokes go easy... Jamming them totally full prevents them from slipping as the grease has no place to go. If you've filled them up pretty full this time then 4-5 pumps hereafter.
In the mean time, now that you're in a panic, most have been over filled at some point. There is a remote risk that a quick, full compression of the rear suspension (both sides, not an articulation) may cause an issue. I'd say drive easy for a few hundreds miles (No Bo & Luke Duke stuff) and you'll be fine
After 200-300miles to include a couple of heat cycles forget about it. Enough of the grease will work out slowly that it'll be fine.
Also note there's a note that allows you to do it all with one type of grease. Either way is great and oh so much better than not doing it
TIP: Do it in 2wd. You can spin, by hand, the front driveshaft.
:cheers:
When you do subsequent servicing of the slipyokes go easy... Jamming them totally full prevents them from slipping as the grease has no place to go. If you've filled them up pretty full this time then 4-5 pumps hereafter.
In the mean time, now that you're in a panic, most have been over filled at some point. There is a remote risk that a quick, full compression of the rear suspension (both sides, not an articulation) may cause an issue. I'd say drive easy for a few hundreds miles (No Bo & Luke Duke stuff) and you'll be fine
After 200-300miles to include a couple of heat cycles forget about it. Enough of the grease will work out slowly that it'll be fine.Also note there's a note that allows you to do it all with one type of grease. Either way is great and oh so much better than not doing it
TIP: Do it in 2wd. You can spin, by hand, the front driveshaft.
:cheers:
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CJ3Flyr said:
Yeah, good tip. The front is super easy. The back, I have to drive back and forth a couple of times to get to all of them.
But all in all, it's really an easy job.And not to spark debates, but for me, I just use generic auto grease (don't even remember what kind). I know the manual calls for 2 types, but so far so good on 3 vehicles.
matroe11 said:
Here is the link
http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/maintenance/tacoma_4runner_30k/maintenancep4.html#driveshaft
