No Grease in the Chassis Lube Points

[danielm300]

Has anyone noticed that the grease boots on their vehicles (tie rod ends, control arms, etc) are flat indicating that there is no grease in that joint? When grease is added the boots fill right up. We have seen this on new and almost new Silverados, Ford F450 chassis, and others as well. Should there be enough grease to "puff the boots" for lack of a better term or is there some new way to determine the proper grease level that we've missed over the years?

[steve841]

Lube for life ...  

[jnissen]

The boots don’t hold reserve grease. They keep out dirt only. I’ve had numerous vehicles with greaseless joints and they work well. Have 220K miles on a van with zero slip or play in the steering.

[BIGDOGx]

55 minutes ago, jnissen said:

The boots don’t hold reserve grease. They keep out dirt only. I’ve had numerous vehicles with greaseless joints and they work well. Have 220K miles on a van with zero slip or play in the steering.

I use to get almost more miles out of my oil then ball joints in my older 95 s10 zr2 that had grease-able chassis points. I think i went through 4 sets of ball joints, 5 idler arms and 4 pitman's in about 125,000 miles worth of driving.