Hi all,
Moving to a new email address: lstphil1@rochester.rr.com
I will resubscribe to the list from that address.
Please update your address books... for those who locked in our old address.
The old address will be history soon.
Thanks,
Eric and Linda St.Phillips
-----Original Message-----
From: Mac Kinghorn <kinghorn@granite.mb.ca>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, February 13, 1999 9:57 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] steering box lube
>In a Motors Manual as well as a factory GM Service Manual that pertains to
>my 1952 Chev 1300 pick up the instructions for filling the steering box are
>as follows:
>
>DO NOT FILL THE BOX WITH OIL
>
>The steering box is to be filled through the pipe plug opening on the top
of
>the box with the top sidecover bolt above the adjustment screw removed.
>GREASE is to be pumped into the steering box until the grease comes out
>through the bolt hole. The bolt is to then be reinstalled and the steering
>box topped off with 80-90 W gear oil.
>
>>From experience if you rebuild the gear box and fill it with oil, even
with
>new seals and everything in perfect condition it will leak. If you drain
>the oil and fill it as specifed above the leaks stop, the internal
>mechanisims get the lube that they need and the box works as it should.
Any
>comments?
>
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
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