On my Magnette and MGA, when I have the car on jack stands I can push
on the tires and move the rack from full left to full right and back
again with relative ease. When I do this, I can hear the fluid run
from one side to the other. I am therefore quite certain that the
oil is getting everywhere and not just sitting in the bottom of the
gaiter. This tells me that there is enough oil in there and I have
no reason to mess around with trying to add more. I think that after
the initial fill, the oil should not go anywhere. If it does,
something is leaking, with the gaiters being the prime suspects.
-Steve Trovato
strovato@optonline.net
At 08:07 PM 6/29/2013, Max Heim wrote:
>Yes, but it's very slow. With the front wheels off the ground, you drip a
>little in, turn the wheel, drip some more, turn some more... You are
>basically lubing every tooth in the rack individually.
>
>However, at least you are lubing the rack. With the other method, injecting
>oil into the gaiters, there is no guarantee it willl ever wind up in the
>rack -- certainly not in the center of the rack. For all you know it may
>just slosh around in the bottom of the gaiter indefinitely.
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