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Old 07-08-2009, 05:59 PM
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Today I greased my Teraflex lower control arms and noticed that grease only comes out on one side of the joint? Anyone else notice that and is that normal?
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As soon as I see it ozzing out, theres enough grease in there.
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Originally Posted by Hellbound13
Today I greased my Teraflex lower control arms and noticed that grease only comes out on one side of the joint? Anyone else notice that and is that normal?
Normal, keep squeezing until clean grease comes out then clean up your mess.
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Originally Posted by 09rubicon
Normal, keep squeezing until clean grease comes out then clean up your mess.
Ok thats what I did, just wanted to make sure its okay if it only comes out of one side of the joint..

Also should I wipe away the grease that comes out or just leave it?
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Originally Posted by Hellbound13
Ok thats what I did, just wanted to make sure its okay if it only comes out of one side of the joint..

Also should I wipe away the grease that comes out or just leave it?
Again......clean up your mess!! Is this so hard to understand....lmao just kidding, wipe it up. A clean JK is an easy to servie JK.
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I like to be nasty, I leave it . Worked for all the heavy equipment I've greased, why change a good thing.
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Originally Posted by 09rubicon
Again......clean up your mess!! Is this so hard to understand....lmao just kidding, wipe it up. A clean JK is an easy to servie JK.
Will do, just thought leaving it might help from water getting in.
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Just curious if you had a hard time getting your grease gun onto the zerk? It's doesn't look to me like there is enough room between the zerk and the control arm bracket to get a grease gun on it. I have straight zerks on mine but I noticed the damaged set of arms I had to return had 90 degree zerc's.
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Like everyone else one zerk is mounted on top and the other is on the bottom. Either way I have no problem getting them on the zerk as I have a flexible hose on my grease gun. If you are having issues you could always grind down that area on that bracket just a bit to get it to fix.

Also I am using Red N Tacky grease. Anyone know if this is a good grease?
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I broke off one of my 90's. It's better just to put the needle zerks in. And one's you can't get too, just take that end loose.


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