Help - Grease able Pivot Shafts

Thank you all for your responses.

I did contact Hotchkis and they are going to send me new shafts at no cost to me (this happened Tuesday). Thats all fine and dandy, but seeing how that metal does look like it has metal issues, whats to say that new ones wont as well?

I asked them about the torque rating for these shafts and the sales guy had to go and ask. At which point an individual claimed the torque rating to be 60 ft-lbs. Any engineered product such as these should come with instructions, especially if the installation procedure or torque rating is different from OEM and be readily available.

Thank you 72blunblu for giving some reassurance that the design of grease able shafts do hold up in the driving environment. But with your explanation of how these are suppose to interact with the K-frame I guess if these would fail while driving, it shouldn't be a catastrophic failure if caught early. You should be able to bring the car under control and off to a safe place.