I was searching around the forum about that drive shaft whining and came across where it may be greased, now i have a question for the techs or anybody that knows of this. On large tractor trailers even some pickup trucks (mainly dulleys) there are grease nipples where one may attach the grease gun to it and grease it does the Xtype have any??? I thought that i might aswell ask as i am doing my shaft tom and might aswell give it a go if there are any nipples on it.

 

Jessy, no nipples on the driveshaft at all. So, what you will need is the needle attachment to side in around the bearing seal. Then you can add some grease that way. Unfortunately, that is as easy as it gets. I wish the manufacturers would start adding grease fittings back in on the various wear parts. Would make maintaining cars so much easier. Might even make things last longer.

 

how often should this be done

 

Irish, if you are looking to do this as part of routine maintenance, if you did it every say 30K miles (50,000 kilometers), you would be way in the safe zone. Most people don't ever grease this bearing and don't have issues. Normally it will start giving you indications that it needs greased.

 

is this model specific ? or can it be applied across the brand ? as in my xj, any more detailed threads around or some keywords that i can search for ?

 

I did it yesterday however the needle broke it bent it lol. So i didnt do a proper job all the way around on both sides but i got results with minamal noise, the car is wayyyy smoother and glides now no jerks and picks up faster, unless um having that car wash effect when one thinks they wash their car it goes faster lol.

 

Strate, no, this is not model specific information. Granted, the indications may vary some. With your car, you may find trying to listen/feel the noise will be harder due to the sound isolation put into the higher end vehicles.

 

yes the xj has sandbags under the floorpan. ill search for more info, or a link would be great