Lubricate propeller shaft interval

[JayQQ97]

its not often that you park the rig where most all grease fitting on the prop shaft line up in a row that is easy to access in front of your nose on the shoulder hobbled under the passenger side where fuel tank not in the way

this happened to I yesterday so whilst i was under hand wiping dried salt off of areas i was able to pump in some red tacky into 5 fittings, one has not been done in a LONG LONG speel with all the dirty covering it buried inside uJoint

now one of these fitting acted up and just spit and ooozed the red tacky back... kinda drizzled out
is that an issue? that it will no longer hold accept new grease and is shot?

 

[tacojoel]

No zerks on the new tacos. Mine has zero.

 

[JayQQ97]

No zerks on the new tacos. Mine has zero.

fancy that!
LOL

 

[tacojoel]

Yep, just replace with new parts.

 

[JayQQ97]

Yep, just replace with new parts.

well hopefully you don't EVER have to!

 

[JayQQ97]

I think normal maintenance for the grease zerks is 15,000 miles......5,000 for severe service. Very easy to DIY.

'mostly' easy to DIY
definitely NOT 'very'
at least on the gen1 taco

 

[JayQQ97]

is this a good quality, perhaps best quality, of greasy to use in the joints?
? right proper type of grease?
i am not totally sure about it all

https://www.amsoil.com/p/amsoil-nlgi-2-100-synthetic-polymeric-off-road-grease-gpor2/?code=GPOR2CR-EA&utm_source=criteo&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=Buyer%20Retention&utm_id=333900&cto_pld=AaYUyqO1AADQYDI-3yEKEw

 

[tacojoel]

Not everyone can afford designer grease.

 

[JayQQ97]

Not everyone can afford designer grease.

is this the proper spec grease for the uJoints?
i don't know too much about it all.. and am still on that learning curve here?!!
so i have been putting in some red-tacky grease but i am about out of that supply

 

[tacojoel]

Any NLGI 2 rated grease will work fine. Use one with moly on that carrier u-joint.
Just be sure to pump enough in till it pushes the old grease out.

 

[JayQQ97]

Any NLGI 2 rated grease will work fine. Use one with moly on that carrier u-joint.
Just be sure to pump enough in till it pushes the old grease out.

i shall check if that is NLGI 2 rated grease
the uJoints on the old rig are pushing 350k miles original joints