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Drive shaft grease

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by DAS Taco, May 28, 2020.

  1. May 28, 2020 at 5:25 PM
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    DAS Taco

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    Hi guys, just crawled under my 2017 TRD Offroad to grease the drive shaft and I was surprised to find that you can only grease the front drive shaft...weird, I thought the center and rear will have some way of adding grease to it. I'm i missing anything here ?,thanks
     
  2. May 28, 2020 at 5:26 PM
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    SpeySquatch

    SpeySquatch Function over Form

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    Check the transfer case drive shaft to the front steering
     
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  3. May 28, 2020 at 5:44 PM
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    Thanks but that's still the front area, no ?, I was expecting the rest of the drive shaft links to have them as well
     
  4. May 28, 2020 at 6:57 PM
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    Captqc

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    17 was the time frame for deleting the zerk fitting, there’s only a couple on mine.
     
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  5. May 28, 2020 at 6:59 PM
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    Lt. Dangle

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    I believe they changed in 17 to only greaseable fronts. I also believe the 16' had 3 greaseable points.

    I'm like 70/30 sure.

    Mine only has the front anyways.
     
  6. May 28, 2020 at 7:38 PM
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    Thank you guys
     
  7. May 28, 2020 at 7:39 PM
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    Bishop84

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    Honestly, the non-zerk ones last longer. Most people either over or under greased the factory ones prior.

    Toyota even updated the parts for the 05-16 to be non-zerk as well.
     
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  8. May 28, 2020 at 7:39 PM
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    Yep just the 2 up front.
     
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