Steering Rack Rebuild

[1990new]

Ok! Thats quite a ways down there. I thought it was grease actually.



It seemed reasonably tight to me, so im good for a while. I just checked the grease i used and it is lithium based! Lucky me. Whats the reason for wanting to use a lithium based grease?

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Honestly did not know the reason for the grease being lithium based.. I had just read that somewhere in the past. Apparently it's not unusual that you used lithium based grease because it appears that at least 70% of all greases in use today uses lithium as a thickening agent.
There are lots of kind however. After reading a bit more about grease for the rack, it appears that you need one that should be more moisture resistant than heat resistant for the manual steering rack. What I used was the multipurpose red stuff which was waxy and really sticky so it does resist moisture well.
Here is a link to a good article on grease. I read some of it but I got tired of reading all the technical stuff after a while.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5236607

[ryanprins13]

I havent read as much as i should know about grease. I tried 2 different brands of synthetic grease and both seperated very badly. I like molybdenim so i bought a non synthetic lithium moly grease for ball joints, tie rod ends, sway bar links and steering racks i suppose.


Then mystic jt6 was recommended to me for wheel bearings, so i just switched to it yesterday. It has a very different feel to it. I just looked it up and it appears i should have used their high temp grease for the wheel bearings rather than the regular. The regular is a calcium grease and more water resistant and seperation resistant but the high temp is lithium complex, thinner, better at low temps and high temps and has better wear protection...


Looks like the lithium complex would be compatable if i wanted to switch though.


Whats funny is i have been looking (but not very hard) for what i remembered wheel bearing grease being when i was a kid. Havent found it. Doing some reading just now i realized my dad used soda soap grease





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[ricko1966]

Can anyone give me OD ID and width on the rack bushings since fourgreen has no more I am going to do a little research and try to find an alternative. Thanks

[1990new]

Can anyone give me OD ID and width on the rack bushings since fourgreen has no more I am going to do a little research and try to find an alternative. Thanks

Here is a link that shows you what the bushing looks like and also has some other links to diagrams and sources (all foreign).
The bushing is not round inside or outside. there are 3 lobes inside and outside and the outside had v grooves. I guess this allows grease and air to move around as the shaft slides.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mdx0...VWKriGJ6VZaJM:

Looks like you might be able to buy them on the Latin American ebay type site "Mercado Libre" but I don't speak Spanish.

This India site appears to be selling them for the equivalent of about $4.50 US with free shipping but that's within India.

[Eaglefreek]

I bought a rebuilt rack so I didn't have to go through all this aggravation. If anyone wants my old manual rack out of a 93 for the cost of shipping, send me a PM.

[1990new]

I bought a rebuilt rack so I didn't have to go through all this aggravation. If anyone wants my old manual rack out of a 93 for the cost of shipping, send me a PM.

Good point... but sometimes one man's aggravation is another man's relaxation. I didn't need that rebuilt rack right now...it's just on the shelf as a backup. If you have the parts, once you learn how simple it is, most people would find that rebuilding them is a lot easier than removing and installing them.

Check with nonamekid about your old rack. He may cover the shipping and then some if the rack is in rebuildable condition.

[ricko1966]

I was just going to go through one I had laying around as a spare

[drddan]

I bought a rebuilt rack so I didn't have to go through all this aggravation. If anyone wants my old manual rack out of a 93 for the cost of shipping, send me a PM.

You should send that rack to noname kid..... I:E: Ben Williams, of The Festiva Store for rebuilding