Hey all I rebuilt my driveshaft recently and have it installed fine but I can't seem to get grease out of all 4 seals on any of them. I've blown through a few tubes now and I can't get it to work.

 

How long ago did you rebuild? Is the grease just squeezing out around the zerk? If you can't move grease through the u-joint, it is toast. As grease gets older, it gets cooked by the heat from the cat. Keeping the grease fresh keeps it working. Once it's solid from the heat it loses it lubricity.

 

I rebuilt it earlier this week. Its only coming out of 1 end on each of the 3 new joints

 

After redoing mine, I could only get grease out of 2. I ziptied a scrap of paper towel around the joint with the most discharge, and was then able to get machine grease out of the other two.

I then drove it around for a couple hundred miles. After that, the grease came pretty easily out of all 4.

 

Thanks pinky! I'll give that a try.

 

Okay. Well that's a different story then. If it had been six months and no grease coming through I say it was cooked.

 

You might be able to just go for a 20 mile drive...just something to limber the joints a little.

 

Sometimes hitting the yokes with a hammer will loosen up the caps enough to get grease out of the caps, but if the zip-tie and paper towel approach works it sounds like a good way to go.

 

yep, hammertime always worky for me

 

I guess I'll have to bust out my official land rover adjustment tool