04-02-2020, 11:46 AM
At some point ( mid thirties?) the steering box lubrication changed from grease to oil — my special has an earlier box which has a nipple, the later car, 1937, has a threaded oil filler plug.
The earlier steering box seems less free and in the past I have made the classic mistake of over enthusiastic greasing resulting in the stuff oozing out below the steering wheel. Had to strip the whole thing down and remove enough grease from the column to keep Halfords going.
The later box doesn’t suffer from this ( perhaps I’m lucky) — it don’t leak and keeps the steering feeling free.
The earlier steering box seems less free and in the past I have made the classic mistake of over enthusiastic greasing resulting in the stuff oozing out below the steering wheel. Had to strip the whole thing down and remove enough grease from the column to keep Halfords going.
The later box doesn’t suffer from this ( perhaps I’m lucky) — it don’t leak and keeps the steering feeling free.