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Do I need to grease the output shaft???

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11K views 6 replies 7 participants last post by  Lupins  
#1 ·
On the back of my T5 is the splined output shaft on which the driveline yoke goes...

Should I be lubing this with anything before putting the yoke on?

Plain grease? White lithium stuff? Moly?
 
#2 ·
Should be some lube on it. Wheel bearing grease works good. I like to stay away from that white lithium crap as it tends to get hard with heat.
If I can recall I had a slip yoke on the driveshaft that had a grease zerk.
 
#3 ·
use tranny fluid or motor oil, the tranny supplies lubrication for the yoke when it's travelin in and out.....the tolerances r so close on a t-5, that i wouldn't want anything near the thickness of grease to be in it.....and whatever u do, do not put gear oil in that tranny, use synthetic dexron....gear oil will kill it.....
 
#4 ·
Just use the same fluid that's in the tranny -- which is supposed to be Mercon (Dexron III). Don't use wheel bearing grease or anything like that on it!