Grease coming out on S Cam side after greasing

Just keep cleaning excess grease. Mine gets on the inside of brake shoe yes its a mess. Runs down. There is a seal but in my experience not quite like a tight oil seal. Wouldn't think you have harmed anything. I grease my own truck except when i get oil changed. Had to tell speedco not to grease s-cams as they over grease. Just a couple shots will suffice. Of course it depends length of lube intervals. I like to grease every 2 weeks. Some say thats to much. Also if the trk is in dust etc too. Just water, and salt water up north this time of year is bad also.

 

I may add a friend of mine says don't grease u-joints till you force grease out around the seals. I always have, since my dad taught me. Like 50 years ago. Still do. Never had a failure because of it. But it does sling out and make a mess. But he does it his way, i do mine.

 

There usually is a lip seal there. When the cam and bushings are new, there's very minimal play. As the bushings and cams wear, there gets to be some slop in there and that can affect the seal's ability to work. Personally if the cam and bushings aren't excessively worn I wouldn't go to the trouble of replacing those inner seals. Most cases you'll have to pull the hubs to get the cam out. I'd just continue greasing them regularly and just watch the inner part of the cam and stop once grease appears.


With the u-joints I normally grease until I can hear them crackle, then slowly pump grease in until I can just see grease at each cap. That way I know each one has lubrication and there isn't a lot of grease getting slung around over everything.