[Mgs] Adding oil to steering rack while I have the radiator out

[Charley & Peggy Robinson]

Yep; that's the additional job the gaiters do other than just holding 
the oil in.  The gaiters pump the oil from side to side via one gaiter 
collapsing while the other is elongating as the wheels are turned from 
side to side.

CR
On 6/29/2013 10:48 PM, Steven Trovato wrote:
> On my Magnette and MGA, when I have the car on jack stands I can push 
> on the tires and move the rack from full left to full right and back 
> again with relative ease.  When I do this, I can hear the fluid run 
> from one side to the other.  I am therefore quite certain that the oil 
> is getting everywhere and not just sitting in the bottom of the 
> gaiter.  This tells me that there is enough oil in there and I have no 
> reason to mess around with trying to add more.  I think that after the 
> initial fill, the oil should not go anywhere.  If it does, something 
> is leaking, with the gaiters being the prime suspects.
>
> -Steve Trovato
> strovato at optonline.net