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1. Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Dan Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:09:45 -0600; I was wondering if anyone has ever filled there steering rack with grease rather than the required oil lubricant? If so, could you share your experience with us. I am in the process of rebuilding a s; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00055.html (7,670 bytes)
2. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:39:37 -0700; I haven't filled mine with grease. However, I did make the rack refillable. I simply took an aluminum style wheel valve stem (all metal, with a nut to hold it in place), punched a slightly undersize; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00057.html (8,295 bytes)
3. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Ken Ritacco" <ritacco0758@charter.net>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 07:38:46 -0400; 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; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00058.html (8,898 bytes)
4. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Robin Young" <robin02@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:16:59 -0400; . > What looks like a grease fitting on the MG rack is acually a oil fitting and Ken, I too have the MG rack and a bellows has burst, spilling all the oil. Since my rack is installed, it is difficult; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00059.html (8,414 bytes)
5. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Larry Paulick <lpaulick@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:57:49 -0400; Dan, I used Mobil 1 grease, and added a grease fitting as well. I use a MG Midget r&p, but that should not make any difference. Mobil 1 is good in cold weather, and I have been very happy with it. La; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00060.html (8,486 bytes)
6. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Larry Paulick <lpaulick@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:10:24 -0400; Ken, I don't understand why grease would hurt a metal part. Larry; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00061.html (9,518 bytes)
7. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:27:29 -0700; I'll take a guess. With grease such as used in a ball joint it is replenished periodically through the zerk fitting (assuming proper maintenance). With the grease in the rack as it works out of the o; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00063.html (9,118 bytes)
8. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Robert Melusky <tigerknut66@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:31:05 -0700 (PDT); I'll take a guess too. I'll bet the factory engineers knew a little more about the lubrication requirements of the parts they were designing and even worked with engineers from the lubricant companie; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00065.html (8,796 bytes)
9. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: sosnaenergyconsulting <sosnaenergyconsulting@cox.net>; Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:50:42 -0700; Definitely not--I'd slide out of my chair. Bob, I just couldn't resist--Best Regards David Sosna; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00067.html (8,409 bytes)
10. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: CoolVT@aol.com; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 00:06:58 EDT; LOL, David, you said what I was thinking.; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00068.html (8,175 bytes)
11. Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Dan Eiland" <deiland1@elp.rr.com>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:13:00 -0600; Can someone explain why we use grease on wheel bearings and on steering column bearings, while using gear oil to lubricate the bearings in the rack and pinion and the differential? It would seem to m; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00071.html (8,582 bytes)
12. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:58:34 -0700; Then again depending on one's diet you may have been topping it off all this time, and not known it! Tom Witt; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00072.html (8,517 bytes)
13. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: <pirouette@charter.net>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 7:17:07 +0000; If you fill your rear end with water you've got an enema. If you fill your rear end with oil, I'm not sure what you've got, but it's surely frowned on in rural Alabama. If you fill your rear end with; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00073.html (8,282 bytes)
14. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Tom Hall <modtiger@comcast.net>; Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:06:43 -0700; You might consider the contact surfaces and observe that the bearings generally have rolling contact whereas the gears have sliding contact. I'd also consider the viscosity, film strength, heat trans; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00074.html (8,952 bytes)
15. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Robert Melusky <tigerknut66@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:25:32 -0700 (PDT); Thanks! that was great! I think I just woke somebody up when I fell out of my chair with my belly laugh in my hotel in Costa Rica I'm glad I "injected" some humor into the topic. I didn't intend the; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00075.html (8,676 bytes)
16. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Robert Melusky <tigerknut66@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 06:32:42 -0700 (PDT); Thanks! that was great! I think I just woke somebody up when I fell out of my chair with my belly laugh in my hotel in Costa Rica I'm glad I "injected" some humor into the topic. I didn't intend the; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00076.html (8,484 bytes)
17. RE: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: " Ron Fraser" <rfraser@bluefrog.biz>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 09:54:18 -0400; If the bearings in the rack and pinion are sintered metal; they have voids in the metal structure that are infused with oil and make it a bearing or bushing. If the oil leaves the bearing it will sta; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00077.html (9,593 bytes)
18. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>; Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:26:27 -0700; I would agree with what Ron Fraiser and Tom Hall said. It seems to make sense. Ron, basically what you said concurs with what the guy at the appliance store told me regarding the bearings (I think th; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00084.html (8,550 bytes)
19. Re: Steering Rack Lubrication (score: 1): Author: Drmoonstone@aol.com; Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 17:48:16 EDT; It has to do with "slip angle" and "polar moments of inertia" Mooney; /html/tigers/2005-04/msg00089.html (7,406 bytes)

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