How soon my front axle must be serviced?

[Akella]

Hey Guys!
I am newbie. I just got my first Cruiser. I need advice on front axle service. How soon I need to do my front axle? It is 1995 and it got 138K on it. Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[nodaksn3]

Mine was serviced at around 180,xxx miles. Looks like you might have leaks at the birfs? Also, if the wheel bearings feel loose, it's probably time for a rebuild. Ned

 

[Tyler93]

If you don't have any clicking or weird noises coming from your front axle, pump those knuckles full of moly fortified grease until 2/3-3/4 full. Drain your front axle gear oil and look for moly contamination in the oil, this will help you decide if your axle seals need replaced. You can buy yourself a lot of time this way but if your history is unknown the best thing to do is plan on servicing the front axle for peace of mind; especially if this is your only mode of transportation, you run larger tires on it, or abuse it offroad. My axle seals are toast and I am delaying the inevitable by constantly adding moly and draining my gear oil every 3 months, which is quite black after those 90 days. Your knuckles do look dry though. My thoughts.
Tyler

 

[Akella]

My main concern is why my Knuckles look very dry and a bit rusted. I haven't seen this before too often on other cruisers. Does it mean that there is no moly grease? I have to drive this cruiser 500 miles to bring it home and i don't wanna damage anything on my way home be.

 

[Romain]

When you don't here any noise and do not go offroading you can take the car home

 

[harrydunn]

They definitely look dry. Add some moly and hit the road. Not much else you can do until you get it home. I think you'll be fine.

 

[Akella]

What brand is better to use for moly grease? And what stores are usually caring it in the states?

 

[7schulz]

I got my tubes at Napa, (Moly something, black tube) a grease gun and small length of tube from like home depot pretty inexpensive just take a wrench (I forget what size) it's the square bolt on top of the birf and fill them up and drive it home. Mine looked that dry and I put roughly two tubes in each. Did I over fill? I don't know, but I'm rebuilding everything including gears with in the next month so I just filled them with grease a couple of times untill I could do it right.

 

[Akella]

I got my tubes at Napa, (Moly something, black tube) a grease gun and small length of tube from like home depot pretty inexpensive just take a wrench (I forget what size) it's the square bolt on top of the birf and fill them up and drive it home. Mine looked that dry and I put roughly two tubes in each. Did I over fill? I don't know, but I'm rebuilding everything including gears with in the next month so I just filled them with grease a couple of times untill I could do it right.

Why you are planning to rebuild gears? So i guess the PO have not put any grease there for past 2-3 years?

 

[harrydunn]

x2 NAPA

I use valvoline palladium, 3% moly. Some NAPA's stock it, some don't.

 

[7schulz]

Different reason, my VC seezed up and caused my front ring and pinion to snap a tooth off of each. So I got everything from 5.29 gears to master bearing kits to knucle rebuild comming in the near future.