Replaced upper ball joint boot – question

[My Nameis]

Passenger side started making noise, turned out the boot was ripped and grease had leaked out.

There was no play in the tire when checking for movement, so I happened to have a rubber boot that fit in its place.

I took old boot off, cleaned off as much old grease as I could although it still looked decent, and repacked with new grease. Hoping it’ll last me a while before replacing whole upper control arm/ball joint

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I wiped the threads but there was still a thin layer of grease one them, would this cause the castle nut to come loose over time or am I overthinking?

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[college man]

if the cotter pin is in place you are good to go.

[My Nameis]

Nice. Hopefully it’ll give little longer life to the ball joint till I can afford to replace it.

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