4RunnerLaker
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when you guys did your first 15,000 mile service, did you guys get all the lubrication stuff done also as in the manual? (the joints and etc?)
if I don't get it done how bad is it?
if I don't get it done how bad is it?
lubricating the joints
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Read your service Passport manual. Lubricating the propeller shaft is required every 5,000 miles.
This is a virtually no-cost procedure, so there's no gain by blowing it off. If I forget to do mine at each oil change, the vehicle soon develops the dreaded binding-slip-yoke klunk every time I stop to remind me that I've screwed up.
This is a virtually no-cost procedure, so there's no gain by blowing it off. If I forget to do mine at each oil change, the vehicle soon develops the dreaded binding-slip-yoke klunk every time I stop to remind me that I've screwed up.
bulldog-yota
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Shouldn't be a biggie. I did mine at 20k, and I have done a bit of off-roading as well.
Few dealers seem to do it, as a lack of grease in the slip joints on the driveline is the #1 cause of the driveline jerk at a stop. A couple of shots with a grease gun solved mine instantly and that was after I complained to the dealer a number of times about the jerk. Just request them to do it at 20k and verify that they actually do it, dealers:rolleye2:
Few dealers seem to do it, as a lack of grease in the slip joints on the driveline is the #1 cause of the driveline jerk at a stop. A couple of shots with a grease gun solved mine instantly and that was after I complained to the dealer a number of times about the jerk. Just request them to do it at 20k and verify that they actually do it, dealers:rolleye2:
bulldog-yota
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I used Lithium in the Spiders (U Joints) and Moly Lithium on the Yoke, no cardian on my 4WD which I can remember. No probs with the clunck after that, but I have only done 2.5k miles and some wheeling after I did the driveline service.biglatka said:
I think BOb did a god write up onthe 3rd gen, which applieas to the 4th Gen as well. Go here http://www.4runners.org/articles/zerk/
bulldog-yota said:
Thanks for the link, it's a good one. My 2004 service manual shows a double-cardan joint in the maintenance section (both diagram and text), but it does not appear in the driveshaft section (diagram nor in the text). I haven't had the opportunity to grease the driveshaft in my 2004 4Runner yet, but I’ll bet there is no cardan joint, as you have observed in yours.
It seems that maybe they carried over the same maintenance diagram year after year (it looks identical to the diagram for the '88 4Runner). They still require two types of grease depending on the fitting. Maybe I'll look into using a single synthetic moly-disulphide grease, as Khaug suggested, when I'm ready to do the job.
bulldog-yota
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khaug said:
I wouldn't recommend this as the Toyota repair manual still states both greases for the different applications. I'm not a lube expert, so I would refer that to an expert in the difference between the two greases.
My suspicion is that the moly grease is more fluid than the normal lithium grease to allow it to lube up the slip joint easier, but this characteristic might cause leakage on the U joints.
