Greasing the ship

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.

V

vilasman

Joined
Sep 6, 2010
Threads
100
Messages
359
All my grease zerks were greased around 10k miles ago. All highway except when I got stuck. I plan on getting the grease gun and crawling under it and greasing it with all 4 tires on the ground. Cant afford jack and stands for 2 weeks. I will do 1400 miles plus Frederick to Huntsville and back in those 2 weeks. Can I wait or should I stress?

I have torque wrenches. Do I need to torque now it can I do another 4-5000 miles?
 
Last edited by a moderator:
I'm never really sure if your posts are serious or not. There is no reason to raise the vehicle to reach the zerks. Your vehicle is probably not going to fall apart due to not greasing on your trip. Although this should always be part of your PM schedule.

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about using a torque wrench on. Or, why you have multiple ones without a basic knowledge of what you're attempting to do. Maybe you mean ratchets? Or hand wrenches? But, you don't need those to grease anything either. Maybe there is a language barrier.

Working on/under/around a heavy vehicle is dangerous. It shouldn't be done without at least basic knowledge and safety in mind. Sometimes it's better to pay someone to do the work. Your time and safety are worth something. Be careful.
 
Ok.... I am at 121118 miles or 120,000 mile service. I looked at the list of things that should be done at this interval and it includes oil change, retorquing the driveshaft and several other things and pumping grease into all the grease zerks. Then I did forum search for grease zerks and greasing the drive train. From what I gathered from reading the threads is the following. A) you should pump grease into the grease points pretty much every time you change the oil B) if you don't you stand the chance that one of grease points may clog up and be hard to get grease into or C) you may get to it and find that it has no grease in it. When I did my 110,000 mile oil change the mechanic remarked that one of the front drive shaft zerks seemed to have no grease. I am thin enough to get under it with all 4 wheels solidly on the ground. I just don't want any of the issues that I read about in the grease threads happening to me. I get that rear differential thud every blue moon when in stop and go traffic. Wondering about that too.
 
I have had my cruiser 4 months and done 17,000 miles and I am going to do at least that many more between now and august. From reading the post on this forum I have gathered that if you have a good truck and you are running mainly on the highway then preventive maintenance and following the maintenance schedule is key. Some one said do what's needed every 5000 miles, wash ,rinse, repeat. Well just going to work I am hitting 5000 mainly highway miles just going to work every 6 weeks. I have 7-8 1000+ mile weekend road trips before the end of august which means I am due an oil change almost every 3 weeks and thats with Mobil 1. I will probably get the 120,000 mile service done, next weekend. I am going to change the air filter and other simple stuff this week and do the GPS upgrade with the cheap eBay disk. From looking at the maintenance schedule after getting the 120000 service complete it looks like the service is simple up to 155000 miles. Change the oil, torque the drive train and 1 or 2 other things. I am used to driving Honda's... And all I did for them was add oil. Not change it.. add it. Going to take better care of cars from now on.
 
buying grease and gun by the end of the week. I am subscribed to the official which grease to use where thread
 
I have read many of the axle grease threads including "Lubing propeller shaft aka Drive shaft" and "efinitive list of recommended oil/grease types and quantities for 100 series" . I gather that a lot depends on the current condition of the truck when you go to grease it... mainly whether it was taken care of well before you go to grease it. Mine was. My take is I should use NLGI-2 , ( I want to use royal purple if I can find it) on the rear drive shaft zerk And Nlgi-1 on the u joints and every where else. Does this sound reasonable? Also I have been to Autozone, Pepboys and walmart...So far Auto zone had valvoline grease,,, walmart had store brand and Pepboys had a store brand. Who actually sells decent grease...NAPA?
 
Don't over think it Vilasman, plain old Valvoline Durablend synthetic #2 moly fortified in the slips and unis works just fine for me.

Sent from my iPhone using IH8MUD
 
The one fault the people I work for have with me... Is I over think everything
 
PADDO said:
Don't over think it Vilasman, plain old Valvoline Durablend synthetic #2 moly fortified in the slips and unis works just fine for me.

Sent from my iPhone using IH8MUD
Click to expand...

Ditto.

Just did mine with this yesterday using a Lincoln gun.

Sent from the middle of nowhere via IH8MUD
 
Did mine this week as well. I'm not doing any heavy driving this month, but it's just one of those things where if you can't remember when it was done last, it won't hurt to get it done.

It's not expensive enough that it should be one of those things where it's worth it to wait..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Back
Top Bottom