Rack Question or 3

[Levitan]

What lubricate is in a rack? Oil, grease, none? When replacing tie rod boot(bellow), what do You do to clean and Lubricate?

I was going to spray with brake cleaner and then lather with wheel bearing grease. Then put new boots on. Good, bad?

Thanks in advance!

[Damkid]

I'm assuming it's just regular grease in there, but I honestly don't know for sure

[Pu241]

FB71, suggested lithium grease to me when I inquired about the same thing.
As he did not find a specified lubricant for the rack.
I think any high quality lubricant will be fine, considering what it has been operating under (no boots and/or lubricant).

[Levitan]

Good point! Lithium it'll be after cleaning.

[WmWatt]

It's not going to heat up like the bearings so you would not need the high temperature bearing grease. Ordinary chassis lube grease should do.

[Movin]

I used marine wheel bearing grease.

[Levitan]

I sprayed with lithium grease.

I have learned so much during this suspension rebuild. As many know, I have done halfshaft writeups and do most Festy repairs and swaps myself. Somewhere in the beginning of my rollerskate addiction, I acquired a bad habit, whether through misinformation or just stupidity on my part. I always thought that when the inner tie rod went bad, it required a rack rebuild. I would always just replace the rack with a good one with good inner tie rods and boots. Man, was I ever wrong, causing me a lot of unnecessary work.

Cool thing is I'm learning this bit of info on Levistiva, which I sold a couple weeks ago, and getting paid for the labor! Nice!

[Larry Hampton]

I used Wheel Bearing grease. Ran the rack all the way out one way, cleaned it with brake clean and a rag, then the other side. Then back to pack with grease, mounded it up and slowly moved the rack inboard, once in I put the inner boot on and secured with zip ties. Flipped it over (mounted in vise) and did the same to the other side.