No zerks on 2017 TRDOR ??

To my suprise my 17 only has zerks on the front drive shaft. No zerks on the rear drive shaft at all. My 16 had zerks on every u joint. Does anybody know why they changed?

 

Those front Zerks are a bit of a pain in the ass too!

 

What's a zerk?

 

Replacing the cross journals and bearing cups in the u joint in all three is a little over 2 hours to complete on your own. My needle bearings blew out at around 80,000 miles which I drove on for a few thousand miles more until it sounded like I was driving on glass. Anyway, one weekend I got three new spicer cross journal bearing cup assemblys, pulled the driveshaft out, pressed in all the new parts ad reinstalled it in under 3 hours. If it comes time to replace them yourself, I suggest being barefoot for the procedure so you can cradle the far end of the shaft when you remove it so it doesn't fall on the ground or get dinged. It's pretty light and easy to "catch".

 

You should have 2 of them on your front drive shaft.... It's a little thingy that a grease gun fits onto and you pump grease into the U joint...!! Kinda like a nipple.....
Yours will have 1 per joint on the front shaft... like the one circled in green.... You don't got the blue one.

 

Does anyone have a part Number/supplier for the correct replacement rear U-joints for 17 Taco V6 TRD OR A-cab ?

 

So I discussed the under-greased zerks with my service advisor when I went for my 10k service. He said my '17 DCLB 4x4 TRD Offroad didn't have any. He could tell by the look on my face that I didn't believe him so he invited me to the service bay and let me look. I couldn't find any. He said something about Sport only or something, but it didn't register as I was amazed there were no zerks.

Reading this I'm going to look again next time I'm in for service for the front zerks that do seem to exist.

 

I've asked this question before and the answer was that mid to late 2016, the rear driveshaft was updated and now sealed and no zerks.

My 15 has them on the rear.

 

Sounds like the Service Advisor totally forgot to show you the Zerks on the Front Driveshaft.

 

2015 Sport here.. two ZERKS on front. No ZERKS on rear. Tex Built

 

2015 SR5 Access Cab zerks all over the drive shafts. For what its worth I did drive a 1987 ford f250 work truck awhile back that had no zerks on the drivetrain.