Grease Ram Front 4x4 Drive Shaft
I just finished greasing the front drive shaft on my 08 Ram. Probably have done this 10-12 times and it never gets any easier finding the pin hole and getting the needle fitting on your grease gun i...
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I like that ones which cover the whole orifice and only use the hypo-needle
in my small hand grease gun
Grease ages and drys out. Mostly at the extremities of whatever joint needing
grease. It will BLOCK any new grease...unless you can FORCE it into that distant
area
Had a rubber nosed one, but lost it...used it on my K5's front driveshaft
and is where learned that it needs to have a lot of force to push fresh
grease out to the far reaches of that joint
Hypo-needle is used for bearings (bicycle, auto, etc), brake slide pin...behind
their O-Rings, etc. Also my Suburban's era had squeaky door hings
and tough to get oil in there...let alone grease. This does the job.
Ditto most other places around the house needing grease
Only use high temp disc brake grease loaded with molyb for EVERYTHING
Even my guns...
in my small hand grease gun
Grease ages and drys out. Mostly at the extremities of whatever joint needing
grease. It will BLOCK any new grease...unless you can FORCE it into that distant
area
Had a rubber nosed one, but lost it...used it on my K5's front driveshaft
and is where learned that it needs to have a lot of force to push fresh
grease out to the far reaches of that joint
Hypo-needle is used for bearings (bicycle, auto, etc), brake slide pin...behind
their O-Rings, etc. Also my Suburban's era had squeaky door hings
and tough to get oil in there...let alone grease. This does the job.
Ditto most other places around the house needing grease
Only use high temp disc brake grease loaded with molyb for EVERYTHING
Even my guns...
