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How often do you all lube the driveshaft slip joint? Do you have to disassemble it to grease it, or are there grease zerks?

I ask because part of the work I'm having done with my rear suspension install is adding a slip joint to the driveshaft.

 

Morning ladies

 

Ummm... Tasty goodness there...

 

Mine had three zerks on the rear shaft, and two on the front. I greased every 5k oil change. IIRC the prerunners may be different

 

Those are the u-joints. Prerunners don't have greasable u-joints. I installed greasable u-joints when I replaced mine earlier this year.

 

It’s never even crossed my mind to grease it. And I’ve never heard anyone on here mention greasing it. If you find anything lemme know

 

Oh dang really I haven't even checked. He said he was gonna post it sooner or later. He just got the cap and decked installed several months ago so it is all new stuff. I just told him about bed stiffeners.

 

anyone ever drilled into their camper shell? I have a leer 100xr shell and it has what seems to be reinforcement on the top (theres a large area that is about 2/3 inches thick) that i was thinkning about sending some self tapping screws into, could this cause me any problems if i dont go all the way through? I am looking to hang a fabric molle pannel on my roof using 3m super 90 adhesive and some self tapping screws.

 

Nice man I just saw one a little bigger than that on post behind my house on sat night. I took my dog out and he was sniffing around and stopped and was just staring so I pulled out my flashlight and bam this huge buck was chilling with his doe hoe in the tall grass field behind my house. Looked huge and wasnt even bothered maybe 20 yds out. I wish I had a bow and a permit. They go right by my house all night I think it is part of their little trail to a few open field feeding grounds. Usually a group of 6-7 nice size does but first time I have seen the buck.

 

Drill to the outside of that reinforced area it is the honeycomb. that is also where you typically drill to run tracks.

 

Yes Bill, yes you should! Join the Topper Gang man!

 

If you could, take a pic. That large area sounds like standard honeycomb on toppers

 

Same here....

I'm not tracking anything for slip joint either?

this thread talks about it in post #8 and further on...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/slip-joint-on-the-drive-shaft-axel-wrap.74845/

 

Been gone for a bit to get some much needed R & R.
Anything interesting happen in the last 50+ pages?

 

this is the pannel, and then the roof/area where im looking to mount it. 2-3 inches was a little big of a guess.

 

Does anyone want a set of smittybilt molle seat covers? They are meant for a Jeep but I'm sure they would work for us. I got them free

 

I could probably use them

 

You didn’t think to text our group first? Dang it Adam

 

Randy messaged me right before he yelled at me. Lol.

 

I wouldn’t drill into that. AFAIK that’s the honey comb that makes the roofs so rigid. You could try some really thick glue and glueing it to the roof carpet.