Thread: Inaccessible grease point on double-cardan joint

Originally Posted by Chops

G'day Pete, there's a grease nipple kit you can buy which has various sorts of extensions and nipples which should be able to get in there. Chris (rangieman) has one, so he might chime in later with some more info. Not sure if he got it from Bunnings.

Im here and i got the kit from super crap ,It was about $50.00 from memory and i remove my shaft off the T/C to do it with this tool from the kit

Mine looks like the needle valve you would use to inflate a footy but is about twice the size

The easiest way is to use the MacNaught needle point and take the floor out !

Easy peasy then,
I've dropped the t/case end too, until I thought bugger it, and took the drivers floor out.

The U-shaped needle thingy might be worth a shot. I have a flexible hose on the grease gun but there isn't room to get it in with the fitting facing upward. Taking the floor out is problematic now as I glued mine all down with sikaflex a while back!

Originally Posted by rick130

The easiest way is to use the MacNaught needle point and take the floor out !

Easy peasy then,
I've dropped the t/case end too, until I thought bugger it, and took the drivers floor out.

To really adhere to the landrover spirit you don't take the floor out, you just cut another hole in it to access what you want.

My transmission tunnel is like swiss cheese and sometimes I can't remember which patch is for what haha.

cheers, DL

Originally Posted by POD

twr7cx's thread about his Tom Wood driveshaft reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while about the Tom Wood double-cardan shaft I have installed on my 130.

I have a previous thread on this - Greasing Tom Woods Driveshafts - never found a solution for doing it in situ.

I put long grease nipples on my perentie UJ's. I found nice skinny ones that cleared it well - bursons for $6.

Originally Posted by dranoweb

I put long grease nipples on my perentie UJ's. I found nice skinny ones that cleared it well - bursons for $6.

The grease nipple being discussed is not on a UJ. It's for the ball of the double-cardan. The reason why a flap special type is used is because the knuckles close over it - if a normal grease nipple or a long unit (such as what you have pictured) were fitted it would be crushed by the knuckles when the shaft rotates around. If it was two days ago when I had my front tailshaft out I would have taken photographs to illustrate for you but I've refitted it now.