i need to add grease to a vega steering box, can i take off the top without messing up the adjustment. also is axle grease mixed w/90 weight oil the proper lube?
From memory, Saginaw recirculating ball steering uses grease, unlike plain gear steerings. I remember that I actually bought some of the GM packaged grease for my old Nova because that was easier than trying to figure out which parts store grease matched the GM spec. It was a fairly thin black grease. I made a dirt-simple tool to add grease...I purchased a spare cheapo bolt the size of the ones holding the cover on, drilled a hole in the top of it, and threaded the hole for a Zerk fitting. Be sure the hole you use goes all the way through, but i think they all do. At grease time just thread it in and pump away.
You can leave the cover in place,....and fill thru one of the bolt holes, as Bruce said. Has anyone tried using the grease that's used in CV joints? It seems like a lube that will stay "fluid" enough to do the job and not leak out. 4TTRUK
I had a tube of what G.M. recommended for Vega steeering gears (long since discontinued), and it was the consistency of heavy gear oil, not grease.
i have a greese zerk on the top plate of my vega box. the builder of the car Mr. Stan VanAmberg told me to add a shot of greese to the box when i greese the ch***is. i have been using ch***is greese for 16 years now. he did mechanic work for the original Pete&Jakes back in the day.......................
I heard someone say one time JohnDeere Cornhead grease it is a thin like grease sold a tractor shops.
Great minds think alike, LOL! I had figured on doing the same thing you did Bruce. Only difference is I bought some "Cornhead grease" from a John Deere dealer. I'm no farmer but I read someplace, maybe here on HAMB, maybe on a machinist's forum, that it is a superior grease for slow moving gears, balls, and bearings in cornpicker heards.
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