Hi Bob,
Early MGBs had a grease fitting on the rack that was supposed to
receive the ten shots of oil. Confusing? Apparently, for MG stopped
installing the fitting.
If you need to replenish gear oil on a car that lacks the grease
fitting, it's necessary to remove the Yoke Cover Plate, its shims, the
yoke inside, the spring, the damper pad and then to pour in the oil. The
yoke appears to have a hole in it. It does, but the hole is for the
spring and the hole does not allow oil to flow past the damper pad.
You will need a funnel and a tube to do this. The oil capacity is given
as 1/3 pint. How one determines how much to add, when he can't tell how
much is already in the rack is a good question.
When I faced that question, I resolved it by reasoning that if there is
already 1/3 pint in there, and another 1/3 pint is added, it won't cause
a problem unless the rack boots are too full to compress when the wheels
are turned. If that were to happen, I would loosen one of the boot
clamps and let some oil dribble out.
Bob
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 22:38:56 -0600 "BOB" <NOGERA@prodigy.net> writes:
>Need some claification here :
> A) My Haynes manual says to shoot about 10 shots from a grease gun
>filled with " proper lube ( gear oil ) into the rack housing when
>reassembling it.
>In my archives from this list John Twist says " fill the rack
>housing
>with lube ..."
>
>Generally when it comes down to who to believe I always vote for
>Twist, but
> given the construction of the rack housing it would appear that 1)
>I'm
>going to need a lot of gear oil 2) most of that oil is going to be
>on the
>ground shortly after I put it in.
>Any thoughts about this ?
>
>Bob Nogueira
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