Where's the grease coming from?
06-30-2012, 09:55 PM
#6
Talk to person who installed the spacers! They could have done the right thing and applied it to the center of the spacer to prevent corrision from the steel to aluminum contact! I prefer a small amount of anti-sieze but they may have used cv greece. Never put the lube on the face of the rotor or where it contacts the wheel only a light coat on the inner edge where it contacts the 3 nubs on the hub!
06-30-2012, 10:04 PM
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I installed the spacers, and have to shamefully admit I didn't put grease. But point taken. Besides, if it was grease from there, out wouldn't move inwards.
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06-30-2012, 10:18 PM
#8
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Did you service the CV boots recently? I remember grease/solvent running out of that hole in the center of the axle when I was cleaning out the CV joints during a degrease/regrease/new boots job on my car. It may just be excess grease in the joint getting pushed out.
06-30-2012, 10:25 PM
#9
RL Technical Advisor
Its excess CV grease that runs out when everything is hot. Not uncommon on track & race cars, depending on the amount & type of grease that been used.
06-30-2012, 10:37 PM
#11
RL Technical Advisor
If you track it, the CV's need more frequent attention than cars used strictly for the street. I cannot offer maintenance intervals due to all the variables at work here, however I'd strongly recommend using a very high quality CV grease (such as Neo) instead of the normal stuff that most shops use.
07-10-2012, 01:36 PM
#14
I have tried this as well. After a track day where I spun the car off track I had CV grease coming out of the breather whole. Repacked both joints with high quality grease and have not seen it since. And yes I have spun around a couple of times since 
