Seeping lube, oooer

[dazandcaz]

After greasing up the usual points on my truck, i have noticed that the bottom ball joint boots have a tiny split in each. Is this an MOT fail? I couldn't feel any play in these and only had the tracking done a few weeks ago, so hopefully the mechanic would have noticed play.
I have had previous cars fail on split ball joints, but they probably were worn (it was a viva, every thing was worn!)

Dazza

[TonyN]

I'd clean then them up a bit and if its a big split try a little superglue.

Grease will leak out the top/bottom anyway when you grease them, so grease around the rubbers is often put down to that. Tell the MOT you've just greased then and got carried away and made a mess!

They should be more worried about wear in them than small splits, but you never know and technically its fail/advisory, so try and keep him in a good mood.

[davec170]

Are they definately splits? My new ball joint rubbers each have a tiny "teat" with a pin hole in it. As you pump in new grease it expells some of the old. Prevents you bursting them if you go mad with the gun too.

[dazandcaz]

Thanks for the quick replies and making me feel better as it looks a bit of a daunting task to replace. I will definatley check to see if they are little "teats" but if not i will try to glue them to try to stop dirt ingress.
Ta guys