At 12:16 PM 8/9/96 +0200, Danko Roozemond wrote:
>Greetings all,
>
>During the rebuild of my TD i started disassambling the steering rack. Not
that
>it is that worn but to derust it. But in the books I found two different
>opinions on the lubrication of the assambly.
>
>1) according to several including manual I should use gear oil.
>2) according to the t type rest handbook (knudson) I could also use multi
>purpose grease.
>
>As Grease is far more easy to handle than gear oil (not that messy) and
getting
>the gear oil in place is not that simple I am thinking of using the grease.
>
>Any comments or advices to use the gear oil would be appreciated
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Danko Roozemond
>
You can use either the gear oil or the grease. If yours has a grease
fitting, I would probably go that way. I think that the choice depends
partly on environmental conditions...grease works well in hot climates like
ours...Louisiana.
Regards,
Hal
Hal Rogers
H.D. Rogers & Sons
Import Auto Specialists
3418 Barksdale Blvd.
Bossier City LA 71112
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