No. If it is binding then it needs to come apart no matter... It could have broken parts inside or be full of rust/dirt that has to be cleaned out as well as everything lubricated.
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Thanks Ogre, This is the rack on my '85GT. It doesn't have anything wrong with it to my knowledge. It's just that the car is original to the best of my knowledge, so it's 20 years old with 100K miles on it. I was lubing the suspension today and just wondered if anything could be done to the rack. Everything in the front is sound and tight but I could imagine that the old grease in the rack could be pretty dry by now.
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08:31 PM
skidpro1 Member
Posts: 438 From: portland,or usa Registered: Sep 2004
If you really want to, you could drill and tap a hole in the adjuster nut and install a grease fitting there. When injected there, the grease goes right down through the center of the rack support bushing and onto the rack... just takes a good bit of grease. If you want to lubricate it without tearing it down, remove the front bucket from the car, then remove the adjuster nut, spring, and bushing, then have a helper turn the steering slowly from lock-to-lock as you smear grease on the rack through the adjuster nut hole. Once that's done, then install the grease fitting.
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Fie Ro Member
Posts: 3735 From: Soest, The Netherlands Registered: Sep 2001
With a little work you can cut the inner side boot clamps and slide the boots outwards. Now you can lube the inner joints and most of the rack (turn the steeringwheel all left+right when greasing) Secure the boot back in place with a couple of good tie wraps.
With a little work you can cut the inner side boot clamps and slide the boots outwards. Now you can lube the inner joints and most of the rack (turn the steeringwheel all left+right when greasing) Secure the boot back in place with a couple of good tie wraps.
That gets the bushing at the passenger side of the rack, but you won't get grease on every part of the rack that passes over the adjustment bushing that way. The inner tie rod ends have no provision to be greased anyway...
------------------ Turn the key and feel the engine shake the whole car with its lope; Plant the gas pedal and feel in your chest neither a shriek nor a wail but a bellowing roar; Lift and be pushed into the harness by compression braking that only comes from the biggest cylinders while listening to music of pops and gurgles. Know that you are driving an American V8. There are finer engines made, but none of them are this cool.
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dguy Member
Posts: 2416 From: Beckwith Township, ON, Canada Registered: Jan 2003
If you really want to, you could drill and tap a hole in the adjuster nut and install a grease fitting there. When injected there, the grease goes right down through the center of the rack support bushing and onto the rack... just takes a good bit of grease. If you want to lubricate it without tearing it down, remove the front bucket from the car, then remove the adjuster nut, spring, and bushing, then have a helper turn the steering slowly from lock-to-lock as you smear grease on the rack through the adjuster nut hole. Once that's done, then install the grease fitting.
Here's another way for the 84-87 crowd.
Remove the steering damper, now remove the damper's mounting stud at the center of the rack housing. Find a zerk fitting of the same size & thread pitch as the stud, attach gun, and start pumping.
Remove the steering damper, now remove the damper's mounting stud at the center of the rack housing. Find a zerk fitting of the same size & thread pitch as the stud, attach gun, and start pumping.
You're saying that the stud hole is drilled through to the inside? That would be cool!
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dguy Member
Posts: 2416 From: Beckwith Township, ON, Canada Registered: Jan 2003
Originally posted by dguy: Here's another way for the 84-87 crowd.
Remove the steering damper, now remove the damper's mounting stud at the center of the rack housing. Find a zerk fitting of the same size & thread pitch as the stud, attach gun, and start pumping.
That way will take a LOT of grease before it gets meaningful lubrication into the adjustment bushing and pinion...
