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50fordcoupeman · 03-20-2017, 11:14 PM

Hi Craig.............
Some thoughts on your u joint situation. Not a good u joint to start with; not enough grease pumped into the cavity; and lastly and probably the culprit, the wrong kind of grease used by Jiffy Lube. In your video the grease looks to be very thin indicating they use NLGI-1(it is cheaper). I would use only a NLGI-2 which contains moly. At work we always used the #2 in all of our heavy equipment and truck applications.

Hope this helps. Good luck!!

03-20-2017, 11:14 PM	#2
50fordcoupeman Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: LaGrande Oregon Posts: 866	Re: 47 U-joint lube Hi Craig............. Some thoughts on your u joint situation. Not a good u joint to start with; not enough grease pumped into the cavity; and lastly and probably the culprit, the wrong kind of grease used by Jiffy Lube. In your video the grease looks to be very thin indicating they use NLGI-1(it is cheaper). I would use only a NLGI-2 which contains moly. At work we always used the #2 in all of our heavy equipment and truck applications. Hope this helps. Good luck!!