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Waas talking to a guy at the all ireland meet he mentioned that the landy boys are now using some type of oil, of course forgot the name of it instead of the usual Moly cv grease. Supposedly works better as will run back in to the joint when spun out anyone heard of this ?

er land rover axles are full of oil aren't they ?

Unless the later front CVs are sealed from the axle tubes on the halfshafts?

Mine was a 1985 and if you pulled a (floating type) halfshaft it was gear oil everywhere, if you hadn't jacked that corner up enough...

jebiga41 wrote:.... anyone heard of this ?

he meant black liquid latex, the new moly grease

Coil sprung beam axled Land-Rovers use one shot grease in the front axle, where there is a CV joint but its sealed in the axle caseing, seperate to the diff oil or wheel bearings. Earlyer models had EP90 in the swivel housings but this was always seperate to the diff oil, if it wasn't the seals gone (sits in the end of the front axle caseing behind the halfshaft bearing).

Some Land-Rover people seem to like one shot in earlyer models that were not built for it, genral argument seems to go that the oil leaks out as the axles have been neglected, rather than replace the swivels which costs about £100 a pair (unless you have a V8 where they are almost obsolete as no ones made cheep replacements) people think grease won't leak out so easy - possubly true but the level is probubly too low to start with (grease comes in packets of about 200ml instead of 500ml) and the water will still leak in and wreck everything.

As for modern landys with indipendant suspension, they use normal greased CVJs I think and speaking to someone I know who works at a Land-Rover experience place so gives current models (and maybe judgeing by the muted grins the odd future model) more stick than anyone else, the vehicles are good but CVJs are a consumable.

Think CJ used to grease the CVs in his orange pickup every few months, and whilst it was pritty reliable I think, did it eventually break him instead?

There is no wonder cure for vehicle maintinace on off road vehicles I don't think, you eather do it a lot or it breaks a lot. One of the joys of the leaky oil oil filled landy is if water gets in its very easy to get rid of it, and wilst some systems are less prone to water, mud and contaminates, when it gets in stuff breaks, so having somthing easy to service, and service it, is better than something unlikely to break, and less serviced, as averything diesin mud!

If your boots are kept good, and don't split and occasionally you 'squelch' the grease up into the joint by squeezing the boots systematically (all and anytime you drop a driveshaft joint you put at least some fresh grease in then..

I don't think your CVs will pack up very often - if at all...

on a Syncro !