Since there is usually some logic behind many of the seemingly-bizarre LBC
car maintenance rituals, can anyone tell me why on a TR6 steering rack, the
owner's manual tells us to unscrew the rack cover bolt, screw in a
hard-to-find zerk fitting, grease it exactly five pumps, then remove the
zerk fitting and replaced the cover?
Why don't you just leave the zerk fitting in place so all is in readiness
when you need to grease it again? My WAG (wild a.. guess) is that they
really don't want you to be putting grease into the steering rack any more
than necessary. Any ideas?
One other mystery - I carelessly read only the page of the owner's manual
that shows a diagram of the vehicle and which says the steering trunions get
"grease". After pumping grease into the zerk fittings on the trunions, I
read the manual in more detail which says, essentially, don't put grease in
the trunions, put oil in your grease gun and put oil, not grease, in the
trunions. This is apparently a British version of Catch 22. But now what?
Should I now try to force the grease out with oil, or take the trunions
apart to get the grease out, or just leave the grease in there and go have a
beer? If I do the latter, will my front wheels soon fall off?
/s/ George Hay Kain, III - ghkain@blazenet.net
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