Well you guys are reading this so I will keep at it,

Here's a little speal I did about this stuff and how and why I came to begin looking into it

Very simple Folks, a Toyota dealership told me it was private,

Yep I am not old enough to have been around in the Day to see this form of grease in Domestic Rigs,

but Toyota replicated this ol axle , preety darn close, well actually , parts interchange,

Here ya go,



A while back I ran into a odd situation, with conflicting information from Toyota about a type of grease for the enclosed knuckle steering axle, So while none of the information that I got from Toyota added up, I decided to read up on what Domestic Manufactures used in years past, for this unique "Live" steering axle,

What Dodge stated in a old Motors manual was "Short Fiber grease" this at the time made really no sense to me, had no idea what that meant, I asked a grease specialist what that meant, and he did not know either, but a old Jeep book mention Sodium based grease, was used for initial fill at the factory, for their version of this Dana axle,

Now when began looking into Sodium based grease, mostly just to try to find some,I learned that it was also known as Soda Soap grease, So it was about a month or so into my research when I came found a patent From 1941 on the Internet, all about Short Fiber grease,

The first line in the patent was that Short fiber grease was related to Soda soap greases, Wow Sodium grease, Dodge uses the same thing as Jeep, just called it by a vague round about term,

Then in reading up on this type of grease, in the semi fluid form (Learned from Jeep) #0 form, I learned that it had "Adhesion" properties, so this made what International stated to use make sense a38 OZ of a Viscous Chassis lube,,
This word was the first Clue that I had in this crazy grease search, in a Viscous coupler is where I had seen this grease, So while all of these three manufactures used three different terms they all said the same thing,

If you where to go to a astute grease supplier and ask him for a grease that had "viscous" properties he would hand you a sodium based grease in a semi fluid form, being the definition of the word "Viscous" is syrup or glue like,
Describing a fluid with adhesion, While other manufactures like Ford only said use the "proper lube" and to fill the knuckle with 1/2 pint of it, now the only clues there where, if there is a "proper lube" there is also a "incongruous lube" and that a pint is typically a fluid measurement,

Now flash forward in Time from the 1960,s when these things where all that was used and call parts supplier that specializes in the parts for these things, and some how these "Fill plugs" have turned into "inspection holes" , I met one such owner of a Power Wagon that thought that this didnt make much sence,
What the heck am I going to inspect thru that little hole? He was pretty sure Ol Dodge wanted him to pump some sort of fluid in their,

He was right, Short Fiber Grease,, ,,,, To be continued