"Mike Levy" <mike-newsgroups (AT) levyclan (DOT) us> wrote

Ok, so you are saying then that if a person takes their rig to
Chevrolet
and they fail to grease every grease zerk, they should be sued for
neglect.
Or is it, if you get home and don't check to make sure that they
greased
all, its your fault? I've been told twice on two diffferent rigs that
I needed
new idler arms. Why? Well, I decided to risk the drive home to see
if
I could tell why, and why is, as you probably already know, they were
never greased. They are hard to get to, and who cares anyway? Fact
is
stranger than fiction isn't it?

Hatt




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I know Idler arms are hard to get to. Mine get greased every LOF, I
watch the person doing the job. One of the benefits of finding a
small service station that still has reasonable rates, I'm paying LESS
than I was at Jiffy Lube and I'm getting Mobil 1 instead of Pennzoil
synthetic and I get to watch the person doing the work, not just see a
couple arms coming up from a pit with a little hose in hand.

However, in the instance of the original poster's truck, it looks like
there was a more serious issue than a bad ball joint, looks like there
was some other problem, the cause of which may never be known. What I
DO know is that my 94 S-15 Jimmy with 113,000 miles on it still has
the original ball joints and they're still tight, original tie rod
ends are still tight. Only steering part on my truck that's been
replaced is the idler arm, 2 times. Any damage on the second one was
done before I switched off JL for my service, likely because it's the
hardest zerk to grease on the truck and the JL guy didn't feel like
trying.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:21:47 -0500, "DJ Hatt" <djhatt (AT) lycosSPAM (DOT) com>
wrote: