Simple Hack For Taking Care Of Your Ball joints and CV Joints

https://youtu.be/vWOynwTcAL8
This guy has a ton of useful tips and tricks on his YouTube channel.

 

Why not just get a needle attachment for your grease gun? I also didn't watch the video so maybe he says why...

 

It’s not grease in the needle….

 

This guy been watching too many botox vids. He's effectively diluting the grease in the joint with his petroleum/hydrocarbon oil. The new slurry(?) probably gonna leak out unlike a thick grease that would stay put and do its job. The spray oil also doesn't have near the load bearing qualities of the grease, and could be chemically incompatible with the plastics used in the joint and boot. YMMV depending on which magic super spray lube you decide to use of course.

 

Yeah, I don't like mixing grease and oil.

 

I'll pass

 

You still uses grease. 1mil of synthetic lubricant isn’t going to dilute grease. It’s not meant to replace the grease either. It helps by protecting the rubber from the inside. Grease which is a petroleum product degrades rubber over time. Which is why they these things fail. After the lubricant is applied you would coat the outside of the ball joint boot in something like 303 to protect the outside rubber.

 

if his "solution" is such a wonderful solution, why at near the end of his video does he show to "grease as normal"? I mean after all, why doesn't a guy just grease as normal and skip the "solution" to start with.

I also agree, adding an oil to grease is just a recipe for failure.

 

Holy shit, It’s for the RUBBER guys not the joint. When the rubber fails the joint fails shortly after that. 1 mil of lubricant doesn’t dilute grease.

 

There’s guys out there that have been doing this for decades that are running the on the same ball joints….It’s just like anything else. Preventive Maintenance goes a long way. Take it or leave it. I could care less. I personally have been using products like 303 for over 20 years with awesome results. From plastics on the dash to rubber rafts. Shit works. Everything on my truck that is plastic or rubber gets a coat. From inside to the underside.

 

Pretty sure he isn't injecting an NGLI #2 grease...

For every product you use, someone else isn't and has the same results...I have 30 year old vehicles with the same dash, plastics and rubber without using any of these products. sorry but there is not tangible ROI which is why almost no one does it.

 

If it's for the rubber, why not smear it on the outside rubber, ya know, where the rubber is exposed to the elements??

 

I’ve always just used a needle grease attachment to inject new grease every couple years and then run excess grease over the exterior of the rubber boot to protect it from drying out and cracking? Maybe I’m the crazy one?
Don’t like the idea of mixing oil and grease tbh.

 

I think his point was that petroleum based greases degrade natural rubber and this would prevent it. However you could just use an NGLI #2 White Lithium that doesnt degrade rubber, doesn't need a needle of lube, and meets OEM specs.

However, rubber breakdown and failure from petroleum based greases takes decades.

 

Don't think modern joint boots are even rubber, and i've never seen one tear in normal use, only in high angle applications like in a lift kit. Those failures are not due to the boot degrading but due to mechanical stresses. I had 2003 Dakota with 300k on it and the joint failed because the boot actually rust jacked off of the joint, the boot was in fine shape though. Even if the boot does fail and you grease it regularly the joint will probably be fine.