I rebooted my axles a couple of months ago, put grease in them and went on my way. A a couple of weeks after that my drivers side axle had the clickety-clackettys so I replaced it with a newly rebooted (great job by vstech) axle. A week after that the pass. side started to do likewise. This time, by someone's suggestion in this forum, I decided to just put gear oil in it (I used Lucas gear oil) first before going for the more expensive option of replacing the other side. It worked just fine, the horrible noises (which my wife could hear from her car driving behind me) stopped and the car is running like on butter. Before I tried this, a mechanic suggested that I should replace the whole axle because that noise was metal against metal and it showed metal wear, but I tried the oil anyways.
So, the report is that so far, the gear oil works just fine (it's been a couple of weeks so far) and I'd recommend anyone to try this first if you have good boots but a bad noise.
The question is, how come a little gear oil fixed it? Has anyone worked on an axle before and knows why the oil caused the horrible sounds to stop? And how come the axle grease that I had put in didn't?

Just curious

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