[Healeys] Steering Box Questions

[i erbs]

Warm up the penrite. Use a pump to fill the box. Seal can be replaced with
box installed.

Ira Erbs
Portland,OR
1959 Austin Healey BN4
1967 MGB

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 11:18 AM Roger Grace <roggrace at telus.net> wrote:

> Two questions for the more experienced among us ...
>
> My BJ8 steering box is leaking. From the front cover and more
> significantly from the shaft.
>
> Firstly, is it possible to replace the shaft oil seal without removing the
> box ? - that is not going to happen at the moment.
> Looks sort of feasible to me and possibly the most difficult issue would
> be extracting the old seal ?
>
> Secondly as often mentioned here is to refill the box with some Penrite or
> similar NGLI 00 liquid grease. Is there a sensible/practical tecnique to
> get it into the filler hole ?. Grease gun with plastic tube ? Sounds messy
> job to me.
>
> Comments/ideas appreciated.
>
> rg
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