Grease fittings

[Hoginedgewood]

My dealer offered lifetime oil changes and tire rotation. Good and bad to that. 

Figured I should crawl under after the second, it’s been a year, 9k miles.

only found 2 grease fittings, they were ball joints, can’t remember top or bottom, but the 4 ball joints rubber caps didn’t have any swelling from grease, and the tie rods don’t have fittings, so I have a needle grease tool, made sure the six had grease. Was thinking the drive shaft should have fittings at the U joints and expansion joint in the shaft?

trying to come up with a complete list of fittings to grease.

im sure GM permanently greased the components that are without the fittings, but that’s not good enough for me, what about you?

[cbrsilv15]

Unfortunately it’s been that way for GM trucks for years. 2500’s have grease fittings. 

[diyer2]

My 1977 1500 had lots of grease zerks.

My 1993 had fewer zerks.

My 2012 fewer yet.

[newdude]

39 minutes ago, Hoginedgewood said:

My dealer offered lifetime oil changes and tire rotation. Good and bad to that. 

Figured I should crawl under after the second, it’s been a year, 9k miles.

only found 2 grease fittings, they were ball joints, can’t remember top or bottom, but the 4 ball joints rubber caps didn’t have any swelling from grease, and the tie rods don’t have fittings, so I have a needle grease tool, made sure the six had grease. Was thinking the drive shaft should have fittings at the U joints and expansion joint in the shaft?

trying to come up with a complete list of fittings to grease.

im sure GM permanently greased the components that are without the fittings, but that’s not good enough for me, what about you?

 

Tie rod ends.  That's it on 1500 trucks and has been that way since 2007.  The HD trucks have 9 on the front 2011+up and 11 1999-2010.  Factory U-joints are sealed on all trucks 1500-3500. 

 

If you really find a need to needle grease, just do the ball joints. 

Edited December 11, 2017 by newdude

[Hoginedgewood]

Working off memory, I know it’s two, I know I pierced 4. Please don’t beat me up if I typed a mistake, just trying to start a conversation not an internet bashing.

[Logan Lanfear]

My 82 2500 4x4 had I believe 7 in the front end, then one in each u-joint.  

My 98 1500 4x4 had something like 6 that Ive been able to see so far. 

My 2008 1500 4x4 had at least upper and lower ball joints however they had been replaced so I dont know if they were replaced with greaseable ones or not.  

[deputy]

I've found 4

2 lower ball joints and 1 each in the rear leaf springs with zero fittings.

[Black02Silverado]

My 2002 has 11.  I grease them once a year.

[Aldo01]

I have GMC Sierra 1500 2017 does anyone know how many grease points this truck has, and can you please name them 

Thanks

[davester]

6 hours ago, Aldo01 said:

I have GMC Sierra 1500 2017 does anyone know how many grease points this truck has, and can you please name them 

Thanks

You are looking for Mary, Tanya, and Trudy.  Trudy is the b!tch.