Front drive shaft

[03TundraLTD]

Can someone please help me on greasing the front (four wheel Drive) drive shaft on a 03 Tundra V8. I can see the grease fittings but can't get the grease gun onto them. Is there a special way the drive shaft has to be?

[cookiemech]

If you can't snap the grease gun's coupler onto the fitting by turning the shaft (which turns freely while in 2WD), then you have too big of a coupler on the grease gun. Orientation of the shaft isn't critical; if you have a straight shot at the fitting then it should work.

I assume that you're using a flexible hose on the grease gun; it may be that with a solid line on a grease gun that you can't easily grease the fittings.

[Ando140]

I can't remember if they're on the front or the back drive shaft (I think its the front), but there are some fittings you can't get a standard grease gun nozzle to. I've heard they sell some that are more narrow, but I've not seen them. What I did (after reading a suggestion posted by someone here) is got out the bench grinder and ground the nozzle down until the outer diameter was narrow enough to get in there. I'd say I had to take off about 3/4 of the metal around the outside edge of the nozzle. Works like a charm now... almost too good b/c I have trouble getting it off the fittings... also, a flexible hose helps a lot, but you still need a narrow nozzle.

[JTs02Tundra]

You need a needle nose gun tip...

[JTs02Tundra]

That pic is of one that someone posted a while back. Thanks, whoever that was!

Mine is similar. I got it at Sears. I had to really look for it there. The guy that worked there didn't have a clue as to what I was talking about. It was about fifteen dollars as I recall.

[03TundraLTD]

Well I just want to thank you all for your help on this. I bought one of those needle tips and that did the trick worked great.