statikuz Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Jacked up the front of my truck today to take the wheels off and get those front gap guards on, and noticed this red grease stuff all over the place, it looks like it must have shot out of something somewhere. What is it? Did I kill something? This is the driver's side, I think you guys know your way around to tell what the picture is of. You can see globs of it on the upper and lower control arms too. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 My first thought is to check your CV boots and all your rubbers around your ball joints. More likely your ball joints than CV boots, as i have never seen red Molly CV greese before. Not impossible though. Rubber greese is quite often red, but where that would have come from other than the brake calipers is beyond me. No, most likely the ball joints me thinks. Does happen when give a ponding off road if they have been greased recently. Any one else got ideas?? Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Then again, you could have just run through a blob of greese on the road with out noticing, like out of a truck or something, not impossible either. The red colour is unusual thats all!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted July 15, 2004 Author Share Posted July 15, 2004 Alrighty, thanks, there was a little on the passenger side too that seemed to have oozed out of one of the steering joint things... I'll go check... =( Edit: Yeah it seemed to be oozing out of those grease joint fitting things on the steering joints, like the one in the middle of the picture. Should I get a greasegun and shoot em back up with more grease or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Boy Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Does it have a greese nipple on the to of it?? Is that what you mean, its hard to see in the photo. My thoughts are that if the rubbers look good, then put a couple of pumps in, but no more, as they must have had to much greese in them for it to ooze out like that i guess. You could have burst a rubber. If they have nipples on the top of the joints, then its likely if you don't do your sevicing your self, that the mechanic gave them a bit of a grease and put to much in, and its just the greese oozing out around the bottoms of the rubbers. That is the most likely reason. So on that note, don't greese them, but just check they are ok. Don't want you to damage the ball joints from not enough greese because of me!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted July 15, 2004 Share Posted July 15, 2004 Did you say in another post that you had a recent oil change? I can't remember, and can't find it. If so, maybe somebody decided to "help you" and got a little crazy with the grease gun??? :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Maybe that's the case, I didn't look right after they did the change but that's probably it. It was one of those full-service bits where they check lots of stuff out. *whew =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 Yup. The oil change place got a little heavy on the grease, that's all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94extreme Posted July 16, 2004 Share Posted July 16, 2004 what 88 said, that's what it looks like to me. it's ok/normal. don't worry about it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted July 16, 2004 Author Share Posted July 16, 2004 Cool, thanks guys, I was creeped out there for a second... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NissanPerson Posted July 17, 2004 Share Posted July 17, 2004 That's personally why I try my best to change my own oil and grease my own car. Every time I take it to a shop they use their grease guns and blow the grease out of all the rubber. It's just easier and takes less time for them...and most of them could care less because they make $7 an hour. I have also noticed they overfill my car with oil...usually about 1-2 quarts. They charged me for 5 quarts one time and I said "how is that possible? This car takes no more than about 3." Well, they said "our charts blah blah" and I checked the oil, got a refund for 2 quarts and they drained off the excess. Basically, people today are idiots and you have to watch your donkey or you'll be trampled by people trying to screw you. Glad it wasn't something more serious blown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChromoTech Posted July 19, 2004 Share Posted July 19, 2004 A place did that to me once and told me that its to quiet it down they put that same stuff on the steering stops so they would not make that annoying rubbing noize Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 Did what? Added too much oil? This grease was way too thin to do much of anything, and it wasn't anywhere useful, y'kno, just kinda splattered all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k9sar Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Ya gotta remember that everytime you take your pathy into a place like that, you are trusting it to a bunch of low-life grubbies making min wage who don't give a crap about your vehicle. These are probably guys who couldn't get hired at the local McDonalds because they couldn't be trained to flip a burger. Oh well... it's not like they work for the cable company or anything. That'd really be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Pickles Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Ya gotta remember that everytime you take your pathy into a place like that, you are trusting it to a bunch of low-life grubbies making min wage who don't give a crap about your vehicle. These are probably guys who couldn't get hired at the local McDonalds because they couldn't be trained to flip a burger. Oh well... it's not like they work for the cable company or anything. That'd really be scraping the bottom of the barrel. Ouch. I do believe you should hide. A fire storm is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
statikuz Posted July 20, 2004 Author Share Posted July 20, 2004 Yikes! *run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k9sar Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I guess 88's still :asleep: Oh well... another wasted shot across the bow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdub Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I agree with K9 completely. Except the cable company thing. Well except they keep hiking up the price. Most of them are either High School drop outs or crack heads (the one's I have seen in Seattle anyways). They to but 5 quarts in my Pathy once and I haven't been back since. Back on topic... So is it bad to "blow out" the old grease when adding new grease to the zerk fittings? I was taught to add grease until old grease starts oozing from around the bushings you are greasing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mookie Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 ...so is it bad to "blow out" the old grease when adding new grease to the zerk fittings? I was taught to add grease until old grease starts oozing from around the bushings you are greasing.... That's what I do. If I have done alot of water/mudhole crossings, I fill until all the water and contaminates come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonesyUSN Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 the dealership i worked at used red grease to pack bearings and cv boots.. most likely where it comes from Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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