How to get greece into swivel housing

Hi all, I'm wanting to fill the swivel housings with Greece cus of the oil leaks, can I use the type of Greece from the Greece gun and have you got any tricks on how to get it in? Thanks

No, a lot of people use 'one shot' which is more liquid but in Series swivels ep90 is better

Put one shot in through the level plug hole, be sure to drain the old EP90 out first.
The one shot is better if the swivels are a bit ropey as it leaks slower if at all.

Won't ep90 leak if my seals are gone or is it like thick Greece?

taylorslandy72 said:

Hi all, I'm wanting to fill the swivel housings with Greece cus of the oil leaks, can I use the type of Greece from the Greece gun and have you got any tricks on how to get it in? Thanks

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Hope you have big swivels, because Greece is quite a large country, and is a Greece gun for shooting Greeks? Anyway, as BB says, one shot is the Land Rover approved stuff, or EP 90.
Swivel Grease - One Shot Sachet - Genuine Land Rover at www.rimmerbros.co.uk
Differential Oil | Mineral Oil | CLASSIC DIFFERENTIAL OIL EP 90 GL5

Didn't know you could get a medium sized country into an axle

You could always go even thicker than EP 90 like I am and fill with 80-120

taylorslandy72 said:

Won't ep90 leak if my seals are gone or is it like thick Greece?

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If your seals are shot than change them. If oil can get out, water can get in, and your swivels will soon be FUBAR.

taylorslandy72 said:

Hi all, I'm wanting to fill the swivel housings with Greece cus of the oil leaks, can I use the type of Greece from the Greece gun and have you got any tricks on how to get it in? Thanks

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I would only use ep90. If your swivels are leaking, you need to fix them either by changing the seal or both seal and chrome ball. The u/j is designed to have ep90 to lube it. Later landies have a cv type which uses liquid grease to lubricate them.

LeonG

i had an axle where the seals were stuffed, the previous owner had pumped grease in there and all that happened with it was the UJ stirred it up and flung it outwards where it then stuck all around the inside of the swivel, water then still got in and sat in there attacking anything it could including the halfshafts

one-shot or EP oil is all i'd use

Thanks guys and grease grease not greece

depends on usage, if you do many miles a year then best to replace seals and use oil, if only minimal use then one shot is fine, I used it on my 73, where seals were shot and oil leaked straight out, but the grease now keeps swivels nicely coated. dont forget to disengage freewheel hubs if fitted, and use 4WD on a regular basis to keep it churning about.....

I thought it was advised not to engage 4wd with free wheel hubs disengaged.

Blackburn said:

I thought it was advised not to engage 4wd with free wheel hubs disengaged.

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Especially if yer about to drive through a blurdy gurt muddy puddle

Blackburn said:

I thought it was advised not to engage 4wd with free wheel hubs disengaged.

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i use low box (4x4) when necessary on hard surfaces with my FWHs disengaged due to having odd ratio diffs in my 109 (4.7 in the front axle, 3.54 in the rear) i've not experienced a problem because of it

Clarification, when I said disengage freewheel hubs,this means engage normal hubs, i.e make the axle internals move with forward vehicle movement, like a Landy that does not have free wheel hubs fitted....