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Re: Steering Rack Leak

To: MIKE MACLEAN <macleans@earthlink.net>, spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Steering Rack Leak
From: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:49:51 -0500
In-reply-to: <3639723F.AC8197F4@earthlink.net>
Reply-to: Jeff Boatright <jboatri@emory.edu>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Mike,

Mine has recently begun leaking there, too. It may be that you overfilled
the rack. You're the only other person I've heard of having this problem
(so far).

Jeff

At 3:01 AM -0500 10/30/98, MIKE MACLEAN wrote:


> Any listers use 140 wt gear oil in their steering racks?  I just
> finished rebuilding mine for my restoration.  New boots, damper
> plungers, backlash checked, etc., etc.  I was quite proud of the fact
> that I figured out how to fill it with 140 wt gear oil.  I just put 10
> ounces in a manual pump oil can with a flexible tube on it against the
> hole in the rack body after removing the zert fitting and pumped away.
> Filled it up and went to bed that night.  The next morning apuddle was
> under the rack on the floor.  It seems to have leaked out through the
> brass pinion bearing cap.  Was this supposed to be sealed somehow?
>                           Mike MacLean-60 Sprite




Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
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