Ken, I don't understand why grease would hurt a metal part.
Larry
Ken Ritacco wrote:
>Dan I have a steering rack from an MG midget in my car right now as part of
>Dale's Ackerman angle fix. The Midget rack also calls for 90 weight gear
>oil, and even has what looks like a grease fitting from the factory. I
>bought the rack on ebay and it was full of grease when I got it. I stripped
>the rack down to clean and rebuild as much as possible and everything was in
>good shape except rack bushings which are wear points and need replacement
>on occasion.
>I spoke with tech support over at Moss Motors and a British chap told me to
>use about 1/2 pint of 90 wt. gear oil and that the tie rod assembly ball
>and socket joint needs the properties of oil for lubrication. He also said
>that over time the grease would ruin the tie rod ends.
>Like I said, the rack I found had grease in it and the tie rod ends were
>fine, but I don't know how long the grease had been in it, although it
>looked like awhile.
>The other recommendation that Moss tech support had was to add a little
>grease to the pinion assembly through the bottom cap.
>What looks like a grease fitting on the MG rack is acually a oil fitting and
>you are supposed to use a Tecalemit oiler to get oil into the rack.The
>Tecalemit oilers can be found on ebay. Of course this will not help with the
>Tiger steering rack as it does not have a provision for an oil fitting.
>Ken Ritacco
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