Re: Plan on driving a new car on a 3000mile highway trip. Bad idea?

On Sun, 18 May 2008 20:11:50 -0700, jim beam wrote:

>> As the drill turns, since you're drilling from the bottom, the havings
>> fall away. Those that don't get driven out when fresh grease is
>> installed.
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> wrong.  as you break through, shavings get pushed in.  grease on top of
> that pushes them further, as well as any grit that's in the gun.
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>> The fittings were put in in 1986. The car was being driven until 2003.
>> No damage to rack and pinion, and still on original ball joints wher
the
>> grease fittings were added.
> 
> so you say.  but the fact is, unless the boots are damaged, these things
> typically last 300k+, with no intervention.

Sure they do. No tears in the boots on the BJs on my Supra, and they need
to be replaced. 

I sense you haven't really a clue...


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>> I guess that *really* paid off for them, eh?
> 
> 1. they clearly don't know what they're doing.

I turst a factory trained service dep't more than the say of someone who
changes his oil every 12,000 miles, whether it need it or not. Manual says
7,500. What's your excuse?


> 2. contamination is a fact.
>  deal with it.  contamination causes early failure.  if yours haven't
yet,
> it's good engineering, and certainly not /because/ of this stupidity.

This is coming from someone who only does an oil change every 12,000
miles?!?!?