How much grease for sway links?

[Deontologist]

How often do Moog sway bar links need to be greased on a light-duty crossover application? Road use only, no off-roading.

Also, how much grease do you put through the sway bar links? Each time I grease the front sway bar links, I end up using the entire 14 oz can of grease. I've never greased anything before, so not sure how much is normal. I know the purpose of greasing them is to "flush" out any contaminants so I pump them until I see grease flowing out the boot.

 

[Lubener]

Sway bar links do not require greasing and should be dry. I never had a vehicle which had a fitting for greasing on a sway bar link. Greasing could damage rubber bushings. Anything needing periodic greasing will have a fitting to do so and your owner's manual will state the frequency of lubrication..

 

[Jetronic]

lots of sway bar links are ball joints. on a crossover pretty much guaranteed to have 2 on each link.

 

[CharBaby]

How much grease? IDK! Maybe one lever pull on a grease gun?

Any time that I have replaced OE sway bar links with aftermarket links, they've had grease fittings(ZERK) and I've pumped in a bit of grease to the upper/lower joint.

 

[Nukeman7]

How often do Moog sway bar links need to be greased on a light-duty crossover application? Road use only, no off-roading.

Also, how much grease do you put through the sway bar links? Each time I grease the front sway bar links, I end up using the entire 14 oz can of grease. I've never greased anything before, so not sure how much is normal. I know the purpose of greasing them is to "flush" out any contaminants so I pump them until I see grease flowing out the boot.

Using 14 oz. of grease on 4 sway bar links is insane! I have Moog sway bar links with the Zerk grease fittings on several vehicles and grease them once a year. You should only put a small amount of grease in them to replenish the grease that was consumed/dissolved since the previous time they were lubricated. Pumping a full size grease gun lever ~1/2 a stroke is normally sufficient...stop as soon as you see the rubber grease boot expanding. On a SBL, you don't want to rupture the boot seal to the point that grease is oozing out.

 

[Jetronic]

If there's no water coming out while you grease, stop when the boot starts to swell, or at the latest when you hear the crack from air pressure escaping.

 

[eljefino]

Some ball joint boots have weep holes/ slits so universal advice is... universal.

The one's I've bought, however, do not have these slits so I just pump until they bulge.

My end links are about $20 and I wind up cutting them off to do struts because the studs and nuts rust together as one. I don't maintain them particularly well because of this disposable nature. Probably only if I have the tire off for another reason.

 

[Deontologist]

Using 14 oz. of grease on 4 sway bar links is insane! I have Moog sway bar links with the Zerk grease fittings on several vehicles and grease them once a year. You should only put a small amount of grease in them to replenish the grease that was consumed/dissolved since the previous time they were lubricated. Pumping a full size grease gun lever ~1/2 a stroke is normally sufficient...stop as soon as you see the rubber grease boot expanding. On a SBL, you don't want to rupture the boot seal to the point that grease is oozing out.

Ohh okay, I see. I just read in the MOOG site that greasing the links is supposed to "flush" out the contaminants. I figured I shouldn't stop greasing until I had displaced all the old grease with fresh grease! I did like 5 or 6 pumps per joint, maybe even more. I had a ton of grease running down and I remember I had to use a rag to clean everything up.

 

[Doc8404]

Sway bar links do not require greasing and should be dry. I never had a vehicle which had a fitting for greasing on a sway bar link. Greasing could damage rubber bushings. Anything needing periodic greasing will have a fitting to do so and your owner's manual will state the frequency of lubrication..

Interesting. I always replace OEM links with Moog when they go out. They all have zerks.

Pretty sure zerks are to add grease.

 

[Rust_Belt_Pete]

Add grease untill you see new grease coming out of the boot/weep holes.

 

[zulf200]

Do these links have a hollow tube connecting both joints together?

Im having a hard time believing 14oz grease is swallowed up by end links