I got some of the thee five tie rod ends and am getting ready to install them and noticed there is just a bolt where the grease fittings normally are. Am I supposed to put the old grease fittings in there or are these greaseless? Thanks for the help.
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Put a grease fitting in,There should be no such things as greaseless as far as Im concerned.If the old fittings pass grease put em in.
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Pretty sure you should of gotten new zerks with your tre's?
The TRE of my FJ60 came with the small bolt and no zerk. The manufacturers originally had a zerk and no bolt...but had a problem with people installing new TRE and greasing them. Though this seems like a good idea, the TRE came pre-greased and by greasing them, the installer over greased the TRE and ruined the boot. To solve this, they removed the grease zerk and installed the bolt...so you cannot grease them when new.
As a cruiser head concerned about the proper maintenance of your truck, this must be remedied
Take the bolt out of the TRE and confirm there is already some grease in there from the factory. If so, measure/find out the threads and go buy a small pack of grease zerks with matching threads. Then you know your new TRE are pre-greased and you have a grease zerk for future maintenance.
As a cruiser head concerned about the proper maintenance of your truck, this must be remedied
Take the bolt out of the TRE and confirm there is already some grease in there from the factory. If so, measure/find out the threads and go buy a small pack of grease zerks with matching threads. Then you know your new TRE are pre-greased and you have a grease zerk for future maintenance.
