[Healeys] Steering Box and Wire Wheel Questions--BJ8

Jean Caron vintage_roadster_restoration at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 14 17:13:34 MDT 2015




I will answer your question #2. You can replace the dust excluder by removing the steering lever and it may be possible to replace the oil seal with the box in the car, I have never done it that way, likely a little more difficult. However, I would lave it in and instead I would drain the oil and replace it with John Deere Corn Head Grease, it is a light grease and that will take care of your leak. I did this on the suggestion of Bob Yule at Autofarm about two years ago, best thing I did to stop the leak.

Jean  

> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:53:06 -0400
> From: tomfelts at windstream.net
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] Steering Box and Wire Wheel Questions--BJ8
> 
> I have recently been hearing a "pop pop" noise coming from the right front suspension area when making a slow full right turn.
> 
> I do not hear it when making a full turn when the car is on concrete and is not moving.
> 
> I noted this same condition on my E-Type also.  
> 
> I have Dayton wire wheels on both and relatively new hubs.  
> 
> It is not the spinners or a wheel bearing or worn splines.
> 
> Several listers on the Jag list have said they had the same problem and found that the quality of the Dayton's had gone down and they did not fit flush with the hub--thus causing the noise while making a sharp turn.  Their solution was to get new hubs and Dunlop wires and that solved their problem.
> 
> Question---------have any of you had this problem and if so what did you determine was the issue and how did you solve it?
> 
> Question #2------The BJ8 steering box is leaking oil (assume bad oil seal) and the dust excluder has disintegrated.  Is it possible to replace these 2 items while the steering box is still in the car by removing the lower nut and steering lever?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> tom
> 65 BJ8
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