On Jul 11, 6:41*pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Vic Smith" wrote in message

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Reminds me that I haven't even used a grease gun on my cars in many
years. *I don't even know where my grease gun is. *My kid probably
stole it.
Man, I love modern cars. *Is a '90 a modern car?

--Vic

My son-in-law who had a tie rod separate at 30K miles on a 2001 *model
didn't think so.
"Permanently lubricated" *is the claim. * A simple zerk fitting would
probably make it last for 100k miles.

Eisboch *(about 20 lines)

I bet the replacement part had a "zerk" they usually do.