Drive shaft ujoint smoked?

First time poster, long time lurker here.

Have a 2016 OR w/69k miles. Purchased w/60k miles.

Finally crawled underneath my truck to grease the front and rear drive shafts. All of them looked clean except for this one. Looks like it might have blown out a seal and slung grease everywhere? I havent noticed any weird sounds and when I pumped grease into it, old grease pumped out. Just curious if i should be concerned with it or just something i should probably grease a little more often than usual. Any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!

 

Kind of just looks like it was overgreased at one point and just made a mess, grab the yoke and try and move it up and down to check for any play.

It is more than likely fine.

 

Exactly what I wanted to hear! I'll have to check that out. I'm always prone to over react when I see something like this (due to my luck) on my vehicles, especially when I've decided I want to keep it a long time. Thanks for the info!

 

Probably just overgreased.

 

X3 “probably” nothing. However, watch it. Do you own a grease gun? I’d give it a shot and see if you can detect a blown seal.

 

If you over-grease it it will sling more grease. I would worry about it if I heard a bang when going from drive to reverse. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

Yessir. Purchased one for this very reason (also needed one for my tractor anyways). I pumped new in until I seen black, old looking grease start to push out then I would stop. Might of been too much actually.