[Healeys] Grease dripping from top of steering column on BN2 non-adjustable

[mike brooks]

Well I never thought of that!! Indeed, it started when we went through West
Yorkshire, up and down some very steep hills. One particular uphill had road
works with traffic lights, so we were stopped with the front up in the air for
some time.
 
Rgds
 

Reply to: mike.brooks at alumni.warwick.ac.uk 
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From: John Harper <ah at jharper.demon.co.uk>
To: mike brooks <hypercubic at yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2012, 7:59
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Grease
dripping from top of steering column on BN2 non-adjustable


Mike

Did you by
any chance have the front of the car much higher than the 
back at any time
during your journey.

It does not take much for the steering column to get at
an angle where 
the box end is higher than the steering wheel. Oil in the box
will then 
run back and may well end up in your lap or spoil your seat
leather.

Regards

> Just returned from 1500 mile trip (Scotland to Goodwood
Revival and back -
>great time and would thoroughly recommend). 100 behaved
very well except it
>spewed grease out of the steering column behind the
steering wheel. Last time
>I had the steering apart was in 2005 when I fitted
a horn/indicator assembly
>off Ebay (missing when acquired car). It has been
fine for seven years then
>suddenly caused this problem. Anyone got any ideas
what's happened?
>
>Thanks in
>advance
>
>Mike Brooks
>'56 BN2
>Scotland

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John Harper