Quickly just wanted to report what the swivel balls look like after 2 weeks and ~1000 miles of driving.
The bluish Marine EP Grease has started to seep out, but the Passenger side still doesn't look good. Overall though, it looks like water is getting in and contaminating the grease, and not a torn CV boot. Any thoughts?
Driver's Side
Passenger's Side
The spitting grease is thinner than what is around the ball, but it's not watery or runny.
I also saw this area under the truck, seal between the engine and transmission seems to have a slow leak. Rear Main Seal?
Last thing I checked was I had the wife in the truck turning the steering wheel left to right to look at all the suspension components to check for any odd motion. The only thing I could find was the Drag Link Passenger side ball joint had some strange up/down motion when switching left to right. I wasn't able to measure the motion, but did go back later with a clamp and calipers to measure ball joint play and found it was ~1mm. Could this be the culprit to my weird cabin/steering vibration issues? (Arrow signifies the direction I saw the ball joint moving when switching left to right)
Currently, I'm trying to get a set of radius arm caster correction poly bushings along with radius arm to frame bushings to replace before I set off for my 2500 mile roadtrip to FL and back.
Also, does anyone have any recommendation for shops that know the W463 well? I called up Wolfgang's and they are fully booked and can't see me until September.
Thanks for any tips and suggestions.