Quality greasable u joints

Side Note:

Regarding Moog/Precision universal joints, although Moog quality has now become questionable at best, an older US made product is good. For recent products, the quality can be bad, but if still made in the US, might be okay. Perhaps not a good as it once was, but likely better than an overseas produced part.

For a bit of insight into the decline of Moog/Precision universal joints, and other parts, quality, refer to the following:

• Torque Manufacturing was a manufacturer of universal joints that became part of Precision in the early 1980s. Precision also made universal joints and driveline components. Both were good quality USA manufacturers.
• Moog, the maker of suspension components, acquired Precision in the latter 1990s. Initially, Precision remained the same good quality product. It was still sold under the Precision brand at first, but became Moog Precision.
• Moog had been acquired earlier by Cooper Industries, and all manufacturing was still good.
• Federal Mogul, historically a bearing and other component manufacturer, had begun branching out and acquiring other companies such as Sealed Power and TRW. Both of these were broad range companies who also made universal joints.
• In 1998, Federal Mogul acquired the automotive products of Cooper Industries, including Moog/Precision.
• As Federal Mogul grew, they started shifting production overseas, and quality began declining.
• In 2018, Tenneco (the maker of Walker Exhaust, Monroe shocks, Wagner, etc.) acquired Federal Mogul. Tenneco created a new parent company for the combined automotive products entities called DriV. At first,it seemed the quality slip of Federal Mogul brands might stop, or even reverse.
• In 2022, Tenneco itself was acquired by Apollo Global Management. Apollo is a financial/asset management firm. As can be the case, when a financial handling company purchases a manufacturing company, the future might be okay, but it can also be uncertain depending on the firm's intent. Apollo/Tenneco shut down a Moog manufacturing plant in Boaz, Alabama in September of this year.