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Zerk for steering box

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Rick

11-28-2001 13:12:30




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Plan on putting tube grease into the steering gearbox. Where is the best place to drill and tap the zerk in? Thanks in advance.




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Keith_Md

11-29-2001 08:57:47




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 Re: Zerk for steering box in reply to Rick, 11-28-2001 13:12:30  
Rick, I added a zerk fitting to my 51's steering box after rebuilding the steering box and still have small oil leaks. I drained the oil and added grease, it took a little more than two tubes before the grease came out of the releif hole near the top side of the steering column. What I did to add the grease fitting was I took the bolt that you would normally add oil to the box, and drilled a small 1/16 hole all the way through, then I drilled the head and tapped it for the zerk fitting, reinstalled the bolt and filled her up... Now no leaks, and the steering feels not any tighter than with the oil. Also should keep the top bearing lubed. Good luck. Keith

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bg

11-29-2001 06:27:05




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 Re: Zerk for steering box in reply to Rick, 11-28-2001 13:12:30  
Your 52 has a lube hole in the bottom of the bolt hole on the right frontmost corner of the steering box .



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Norman

11-29-2001 02:42:58




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 Re: Zerk for steering box in reply to Rick, 11-28-2001 13:12:30  
I just did this last week.
You can take out the plug in the left sife of the steering box. Use a 3/8 extension backwards to fit on the 3/8 square plug. Put a large adjustable open end wrench on the square end of the extension and rotate counter clockwise to remove the plug. I used a regular pipe threat reducer from 3/8 to 1/4. You can use the plug to find one the correct size and thread at a hardware store. Also, find a greese fitting that fits inside this plug. Add some teflon tape to threads of both connections. Put coupled pieces in a socket and screw it into the hole. This is the high level hole, and the add gear lube hole. I noticed that someone had drilled a large hole in the houseing which happened to cover the plug. Use a small mirror and light to see up behind the metal frame that holds the stearing collumn to see the plug. You may need to drill a hole with a metal hole saw to get access to the plug.

Good Luck.

Norman

PS It takes lots of greese to fill this up, I used some 90 WT gear lub to fill it up first, and then pumped in lots of greese.

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Hope it's an 8N!

11-28-2001 15:03:18




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 Re: Zerk for steering box in reply to Rick, 11-28-2001 13:12:30  



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Rick

11-28-2001 19:33:03




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 Re: Re: Zerk for steering box in reply to Hope it's an 8N!, 11-28-2001 15:03:18  
Yes, it is a 1952 8N. How I forgot to indicate that the first time is beyond me.



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