be careful with the term 'fill the boots'
I believe you are suppose to ... by the book....
stand the rack up on end and pour about 1 pint of 80/90 wt oil in the rack
then install the last boot and clamps.
I cheated. I wasn't going to pull the rack of the car just to fill it after
replacing
the tie rod ends and installing new boots.
I got myself a large gauge needle (grease gun needle tip)
stuffed it in the end of a hose. stuffed the hose on the nipple on the gear oil
bottle
and stabbed the needle THROUGH the rubber boot up next to the rack
on top of the boot.
Squeezed in the appropriate amount of oil...then plugged the hole I had just
made
with a dab of rtv (after cleaning the rubber very VERY well to get it to stick)
Paul Tegler
1973 BGT - Daily Driver
Rat - 1980 Spitfire w/ O/D - in re-hab
Punkin' - 1978 Spitfire - in Superb Shape!
email: wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com
-----Original Message-----
From: John Walker <john@rmartin.net>
To: Neil Cotty <neilc@apphosting.com>; mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: Steering column UJ
> I also found out
>that the rack and pinion is supposed to be filled with 80/90 weight gear oil
>and not grease - never looked at it b4 now. Funny that the grease nipple and
>rack was full of, yeah, grease. Hmm. Obviously previous Mechanics had been
>putting grease in there.
To clarify, the rack BOOTS are supposed to be filled with 90 weight. The
rest
of the steering components are lubricated with grease. I believe all of
the nipple
fittings are supposed to be filled with grease. You might want to double
check
this with some of the more knowledgeable listers before you try and pump 90
weight
into any grease fittings or vise versa. :)
-JW
John Walker
john@rmartin.net
drone@d23.com
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