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Re: Steering Rack Lube

To: Brian Evans <brian@uunet.ca>
Subject: Re: Steering Rack Lube
From: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 10:46:46 -0800 (PST)
Cc: chasdoug@gte.net, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
In-reply-to: <2.2.32.19980129181331.00a6ce14@pop.uunet.ca>
Reply-to: Ulix Goettsch <ulix@u.washington.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Brian Evans wrote:

> The problem with grease is it's the wrong stuff, but you do use a grease gun
> to install the oil.  Just pour oil into the butt end of a grease gun, and
> use it to inject the oil into the rack.  Extremely simple.
> 
> Brian

Yes, and extremely messy.  I used one of those smaller grease guns and it
was leaking oil like a sieve.  Big mess all around.  Anyone have a
source for an oil-tight grease gun?

Ulix



> 
> 
> 
> At 11:50 AM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I asked on the spridget list about getting hypoid oil into the steering
> >rack of a '60 bugeye, and a couple of responses were from people that
> >used grease.  It looks to me like the PO used grease.
> >
> >What's the downside of this?  
> >
> >Chas Douglass -- Seattle WA
> >
> 

    Ulix                                                    __/__,__        
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