T&T Long Arm Squeaking

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pfcstone777

NAXJA Forum User

Location

New Jersey

• Aug 1, 2012

• #1

I've had my T&T Long arm kit on for about a year and it has started squeaking around 4 months ago. There seems to be no grease fitting to grease the joints where they connect to the belly pan. My question is, has anyone drilled, tapped, and installed their own Zerk Grease fittings? I want to do this but I am not sure if I will mess up anything in the joint by drilling in the center of it.


Any help is greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

 

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Outlander560

NAXJA Forum User

Location

New York

• Aug 1, 2012

• #2

i've done it before. take the joint apart first tho dont drill while its in the vehicle. then drill and tap the fitting..works great and its easy

 

whitexj98

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cali

• Aug 1, 2012

• #3

pfcstone777 said:

I've had my T&T Long arm kit on for about a year and it has started squeaking around 4 months ago. There seems to be no grease fitting to grease the joints where they connect to the belly pan. My question is, has anyone drilled, tapped, and installed their own Zerk Grease fittings? I want to do this but I am not sure if I will mess up anything in the joint by drilling in the center of it.


Any help is greatly appreciated.


Thanks.

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At the flex joint? There sure are grease fittings, did you not put them in??

 

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pfcstone777

NAXJA Forum User

Location

New Jersey

• Aug 2, 2012

• #4

Yes at the flex joint. mine have no holes in them for where a grease fitting would screw in. Looks like I'll just have to take the arms off and do it myself.

 

bmyohn

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Lake Orion, MI

• Aug 2, 2012

• #5

Mine have grease fittings as well. How new is your kit? Mine is probably 5 years old now

 

whitexj98

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Cali

• Aug 2, 2012

• #6

Yep^, I bought mine in January also with grease fittings... If they really are not there, I would be contacting TNT.

 

XJEEPER

NAXJA Member # 13

NAXJA Member

Location

Wasatch Range

• Aug 2, 2012

• #7

I've run T&T arms for 4 years and mine came with Summit Machine flex joints at the belly pan, with grease zerks.

Summit uses Nylatron GS material for their bearing cups and they do need to be greased regularly to keep them quiet. They suggest a silicone based lube, I use this: http://www.lucasoil.com/products/display_products.sd?catid=14&iid=307&loc=show

 

bmyohn

NAXJA Forum User

Location

Lake Orion, MI

• Aug 2, 2012

• #8

I also noticed that a lot of my squeaking went away when I got rid of the factory rubber mount on the Upper Control Arms. I went to a Ballistic fab's "Ballistic-joint" and no more squeaking. It would take some fabrication to work, but got rid of the squeaks.