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Drive shaft lube - too much grease, whoops.
Yesterday I did my own 15000 maintenance. Well I was greasing the rear slip yoke on the rear drive shaft and I expected to see old grease come out of the fitting (like on my old truck). I didn't realize I only needed to put a couple of pumps of grease in there and probably put about 25 pumps or more before I stopped. I've since read here that too much grease in the drive shaft slip joint will impede its movement and eventually cause damage because the slip joint becomes hydro locked.
So my question is what’s the easiest way to get the extra grease out? Should I just remove the transfer case end of the rear drive shaft and slide the slip joint apart and dig out the excess grease? Does the slip joint come out easily?
I tried removing the zerk fitting and compressing the slip joint by driving over some parking lot speed bumps etc. but very little grease came out that way :-)
Last edited by FJ_Kayaker : 04-14-2008 at 11:34 AM.
Reason: Stupidity.
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