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> Subject: RE: [T3] Steering gearbox luibrication > > > On 10 Jul 2001, at 7:45, Russ Wolfe wrote: > > > > From: Jim Adney [mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org] > > > > What is the proper stuff to stick in the steering gearbox as a > > > lubricant. I get all kinds of recommendations from the > manuals (gear > > > oil, liquid grease???) but what I actually find in them just looks > > > like a rather ordinary thick brown grease. > > > The proper grease for the steering gear box is the same as for a > > manual tranmission. Checking the grease level even used to > be part of > > the normal preventive maintenance on the early ones. the menchanics > > just kept a pump oil can with gear lub on their tool box. > > Just as I thought this was getting cleared up, you've gone and > confused me again, Russ! ;-) > > Didn't you post yesterday that early steering gearboxes used gear > oil, but late ones switched to grease? And the MT never used > grease, only gear oil. The only steering gearboxes that I've ever > taken apart (late ones) were filled with a heavy brown grease. > > > I call it grease, you call it gear oil. It wasn't me that made that post. I just got involved this morning. For some reason, I didn't get anything from the list all last night. One thing to keep in mind. The steering gear box is not a high speed mechanism. Just about and lubricant will work. Also, The heavier the lubricant, the hard it is to operate in cold weather. Russ Wolfe russ_wolfe@MAHLEParr.com Mahle Parr Filter Systems 505 E. Madison Winterset, IA 50273 ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org