Greasing Drive Shaft U-Joints: A Short Writeup

I was on the 30k service and it I can only find 3 zerk fittings. I pumped and pump and nothing would come out of my u-joint. And I know that the grease is entering the zerk because I could push on the center of the zerk and grease would come out



Am i filling the right zerk? i didn't see any other zerks on the u-joint
I have a 2013 DC

 

If your grease gun is working it should come out pretty easily. I had a grease gun that wouldn't build enough pressure up, so it wouldn't work. I pumped forever trying to fill those zerks. As soon as I replaced the gun it literally took two seconds per zerk.

 

I went to my local Toyota dealership and they said that that my stock u-joints don't have a grease zerk and what i was greasing the propeller shaft (Drive shaft). But your filled that zerk, that i have in the photo and it came out of your u-joint?

 

Update.... I don't thing the guy i talked to at the dealership knew what he was talking about. I saw this b/c I took a look underneath and it looking like there was plenty of grease that came out of the u-joint and sprayed all over underneath my truck, only inline with the u-joint.

 

Gen 2's have 3 drive train zerks. You may not see the grease coming out since it can also come out of the top side sealing area. If you keep pumping you will see it eventually once the pile of grease topples over and runs down the side of the yoke.

 

So, I was just under my 2015 2WD Sport. The drive shaft has no zerks. I've read the 2014 and some other years have them, but I'm out of luck. Oh well. I did see zerks on the front calipers and rear drums with their rubber caps still on - 1 each. Anyone greasing them? I searched, but didn't see anything about it. Thanks.

 

Thread revival but...

The "zerks" on the calipers and drums are fittings for bleeding the brakes so no, no one is greasing those.

 

Thanks. I'm a knucklehead

 

Question for you guys. I greased my u joints but 2 of the 7 didn't ooze out any grease. The zerks tucked up (blue circle) into the u joints would start to ooze after just 2 pumps but the two zerks on the shaft (red circle) one to the rear and other towards the front never oozed after 10 or more pumps. Do I need to keep pumping and wait for the grease to ooze out or leave it? It doesn't appear that it is sealed and no grease will ooze out anywhere.

 

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Bump because I'm also curious.

 

I don't remember seeing that zerk circled in red. There were two on the front driveshafter (located like the blue circled one) and three on the rear driveshaft.

 

I think the answer to this is that the 1st Gen has zerks on the slip yoke but on the 2nd Gen the slip yoke is sealed in a boot. When I had my 2003 no grease came out when I pumped grease into the red zerk (only had this on rear drive shaft since it was a PreRunner). I had read on another forum that no grease will ooze out and don't overfill it. I can't remember the recommended number of pumps from the grease gun for that zerk.

 

Thanks for the info on this, now hoping i didn't pump too much in.