Marauderer
Grumpy Old Cur***geon
I have greased my truck twice now and there are 11 grease fittings on the truck. 4 Ball joints, 4 tie rod ends, 2 on the idler arm upper and lower and one on the Pitman arm. 10 are fairly easy to get to but the Upper idler arm (UIA) fitting is a real rascal to get to.
I plan on replacing the zerk on the UIA to a 90* and face it down and to the rear to see if that helps access. I wonder if the premature failure of the Idler Arms is to folks just saying it is to hard and not greasing the joint?
I have also gone to greasing every 5K mi. as the ball joint grease boots are fairly well collapsed at 5K mi. and I really feel some of the joints are going dry before 10K mi.
I have looked for other threads on this subject and haven't found any.
Has any others found the same findings I have?
I plan on replacing the zerk on the UIA to a 90* and face it down and to the rear to see if that helps access. I wonder if the premature failure of the Idler Arms is to folks just saying it is to hard and not greasing the joint?
I have also gone to greasing every 5K mi. as the ball joint grease boots are fairly well collapsed at 5K mi. and I really feel some of the joints are going dry before 10K mi.
I have looked for other threads on this subject and haven't found any.
Has any others found the same findings I have?