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breaking 1-1/8 caps sounds like an awful lot of torque (i'm guessing that the cap diameter is 1-1/18). if one of the caps is 1" diamter then we're talking either 6cylinder driveshaft or rear axle, which wouldn't surprise me then.
Anyway ... i hear the one's without grease nipples are stronger