Never Fail Bushings vs Wet Bolts?

Old-Biscuit wrote:

ScottG wrote:
The thing I just thought of about the never fails.. Greasing the wet bolts also gets grease on the hanger strap, which should give it a longer service life(?). Using never fails means this strap stays dry and wears out just like always.

On my wet bolts (Dexter)
The supplied bushing is pressed into spring eye and then when greasing via wet bolt the grease only goes around inside of bushing & outside of bolt.
No grease gets to outside of bushing and inside of spring eye.

I would think the same holds true for 'never-fail' bushings

ScottG is correct. The wear may not only be on the surfaces where the pin meets the bushing, but also where the sides of the springs meet the hangers and shackles.

Also, keep in mind that the bolts are usually installed so the the grease hole is on the unloaded side and the grease just pushes right out instead of going to the loaded side where needed. If I were doing mine again, I would cut a figure 8 inside the bushings to allow grease to go all the way around.