[Roadsters] light grease to replace oil in gearbox?

[Gary and Cindy Ault]

Shant,

I bought a used Type A box on eBay several months ago, and discovered that 
it was filed with lithium moly grease instead of gear oil.  I was told that 
this had probably been done because the lower seal was leaking, and the car 
owner did not care to pull the box to replace the seal.  Since I was 
replacing the original box with the used counterpart, I cleaned out the 
grease, replaced the seal, and filled the box with 90 weight gear oil.  It 
does not leak.

In my opinion, since grease doesn't flow like oil, grease will not maintain 
as good a film of lubricant between the worm gear and roller peg, but I 
really don't know.  What I do know is Nissan designed the box for gear oil, 
and I trust they probably had a pretty good reason.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shant Saroukhanian" <shant at techrg.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:27 AM
Subject: [Roadsters] light grease to replace oil in gearbox?


> Has anyone heard of putting in lightweight grease in the steering gearbox 
> to
> replace the standard gear oil?
>
>
>
> This would certainly solve any gear box leaks.... Does anyone have any
> experience with this and can confirm longevity of a gearbox using this
> modification of lubrication?
>
>
>
> Shant
>
> 67 1600
>
> www.detroitdatsun.com <http://www.detroitdatsun.com/>
> ________________________________________
> Support Team.Net  http://www.team.net/donate.html
>
> You are subscribed as aultgc at att.net
>
> Datsun-roadsters mailing list
>
> http://www.team.net/archive
>
> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/datsun-roadsters