+- Austinsevenfriends (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum)
+-- Forum: Austin Seven Friends Forum (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Forum chat... (https://www.austinsevenfriends.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=14)
+--- Thread: Horn push tube removal. (/showthread.php?tid=2794)
Pages:
1
2
Horn push tube removal. - Graham Honnor - 14-05-2019
The steering column on my special is from a Mk 11 Ruby and I wish to remove, and discard, the horn push and indicator arrangement at the steering wheel end so that I can make a plain centre cap.
I know that to do so I must release the clamp from the bottom and pull the tube and wiring out complete but in doing so will I then allow the steering box oil to escape or is there some other form of seal at the bottom please?
If this is not the case and I then have an open end to the steering box, could anyone suggest an alternative method of retaining the oil please?
Many thanks for your time.
Graham.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - Ruairidh Dunford - 14-05-2019
This will not allow the oil to escape Graham - remove away.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - Graham Honnor - 14-05-2019
Many thanks indeed Ruairidh.
Much appreciated.
Graham.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - JonE - 14-05-2019
You can have yourself a new storage cubbyhole, for storing red liquorice laces and the like.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - Graham Honnor - 14-05-2019
Not if they fall down the hole I can't!
RE: Horn push tube removal. - Derek Sheldon - 15-05-2019
Whilst the oil has been mentioned, what grade of oil and too what level. Please
RE: Horn push tube removal. - David Stepney - 15-05-2019
(15-05-2019, 07:33 AM)Derek Sheldon Wrote: Whilst the oil has been mentioned, what grade of oil and too what level. Please
I remove the brass oiling nipple and fill the steering box with SAE 140 up to the level of the oiler hole. I have a dedicated oil can for the SAE 140 so that I can squirt it in. Useful for the back axle too.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - agmatthews - 15-05-2019
Ok now I’m confused...
When I dismantled mine it was filled with grease, but you are saying fill it with oil!
Cornwall Austin 7 club website says “grease”: http://www.austin7.org/Technical%20Articles/Steering%20Box%20Overhaul/
Which should it be?
Does it even matter?
Andrew
RE: Horn push tube removal. - David Stepney - 15-05-2019
I don't think it does. So long as it is well lubricated. Grease has a habit of going hard over the years. I have just stripped and overhauled an old Bosch wiper motor. The grease in the gearbox had gone absolutely solid which is the main reason it wouldn't work.
RE: Horn push tube removal. - Ian Williams - 15-05-2019
In a steering box I have found that straight grease eventually gets pushed out of where it is needed, I mix a little heavy oil in with the grease which appears to solve the problem. Penrite do a steering box grease which might be another solution but I have not used it personally.