yah it looks pretty simple to drill some holes for the grease fittings, might try the tie rods too. it'll make a good weekend project...thanks

 

BAD IDEA; I've made a few million ball joimts for Dodge, Ford & GMC. It's not a "lets drop the 1/1000 cent Zerk fitting and save a million dollars." Years of engineering, research & developent, metalurgy and a dozen other skilled trades developed the greaseless fitting. If you drill and tap into the port of any greaseless unit you introduce metal shavings and dirt into a sealed unit and just turned it into JUNK. A typical greaseless balljoint is moulded in two separate pieces the joint cup and the balled lever, each are formed with powdered metal with wax resin particals mixed in thepowdered metal. After hydraulic pressing the powder into a die mould each part is baked to fuse the powder into solid metal as well as melt the wax resin out which leaves voids which high pressured oil will inpregnate the voids and cause it to self lubricate. The ball and cup are pressed together and press sealed to hold them as one movable part.The tolerance between these two parts isabout two thousands of an inch! "NO ROOM FOR GREASE" So that grease your shooting into that Zerk fitting is expanding the rubber boot and nothing else "except now the expansion area of the rubber boot has been filled tight with grease and soon splits, now grease oozes outon your parking space and dust gets in and grinds away at that highly engineered balljoint." Now it'sJUNK, congradulations!

 

thats good to know. luckily i just bought a jeep and hadn't had time to work on the truck...!