Drive shaft zerks

Anyone else have no grease fittings on their drive shaft? I have them on the front shaft. 4x4 Sport.

 

Just looked at mine today. I also only have the ones on the front drive shaft.

 

2016 Have 5 zerks but it is my understanding the 2017 do not have them at all.

 

Just 2 on front

 

Zero on mine!

 

i found two on mine yesterday front DS one on each U-Joint

 

Mine has 5

 

16/17 same?

 

Guess it's normal not to have them. My sons 2016 sr has them in the rear shaft with a standard trans. I also had them in my 2007.

 

early 16's have them on the front and rear shaft. late 16 and all 17 just have them on the front

 

Ok,that explains it. I thought maybe just the standard trans had them.

 

pre runners never had them all Generations

 

5 on mine. If it's a 2016 2wd should have zero. Not sure about 17 models.

 

My 2016 has 5 so guess it early model

 

16' SR5 4x4 A/T and mine has 5 ... and YES they all needed grease

 

Based on the data on this forum, the switch was made (from rear driveshaft zerks to none in the back) in mid to late June 2016 or early July. You can view your truck's build date on the driver side door card (month/year format)

This also assumes that everyone in that last thread isn't totally lost and knows where to looks for those zerks.

OA

 

Well, knowing that my '03 has 195,000 miles on the original u joints that have been greased every 7000 miles or so makes me happy that my '16 has grease fittings on the u joints. I have no experience with u joints that can't be greased but I have a hard time believing those will last as long.

 

I wonder why they would have opted to remove them for later models?

 

Probably because so many people who can't grease a u joint complained and cost the service departments a ton of time doing something that wasn't needed when the folks here demanded it. I never really saw why the whole u joint fiasco had the legs it did.

I know the shit storm is coming from this statement but I stand by my opinion.

 

Maybe it's just me but do you see the contradiction here? You're saying you've got close to 200k on your 1st gen and greased the driveshafts regularly. Then you say you don't understand why people asked a service department to grease their truck's driveshaft...after just making a comment about how this possibly contributed to longevity.

No shit storm from me though.

That said I bet that's exactly why Toyota got rid of the zerks on the rear shaft (because people were complaining about them being delivered dry). I'm not saying that's the right thing to do but it was probably the cheaper one.

OA