HAS ANYONE PUT A GREASE FITTING ON THE ISS, OR CAN IT BE DONE,BEST WAY TO REPAIR

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I think Mickey mentioned the grease fitting idea a while back. Seems like it would be pretty easy to drill and tap a hole but I have no idea where the darn thing even is. Anyone have some pics of this ISS??

 

i dont know where it is i dont have any trouble with mine so i havnt looked

 

I suppose you could put a fitting in it, but I don't think it would do any good. When you re-grease the shaft, you have to plug one end of it and compress the shaft a few times to make sure the grease gets spread through it evenly. It's kind of hard to explain, but I don't have any pictures to help with it. As for the location, it is between your rack and pinion and steering column. It is the part that actually goes through the firewall. I recently greased mine and didn't take any pictures. I'm not anticipating doing it again soon, but if I should have to I'll take pictures next time.

Edit- After posting this I did a search on google and found this walkthrough I'm sure others here will find helpful. The pictures are pretty decent too.

http://www.colinkraft.com/shaft.php

 

Nice find!!! I may have to tackle mine...

 

i mentioned it but have not done it. but talking to the dealer he was saying the new impalas now have a rubber stopper there to allow it to hold grease better and also to stop the rattel in it when the grease is low.
might be worth finding out if we could do something like this but who knows.

 

mickey i saw ur monte ....wow doode thats NICE! props

 

Does this mean that the new Montes don't have this rubber stopper? I could swear that my steering is making funny vibrations and noises when I turn and brake or backup and turn.

 

The guy has a couple band-aids on his fingers lol Dont trust him!

 

I didn't use bandaids at all and I didn't have any problems. But I also do this every day and had the luxury of using a lift