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Aug 14th, 2018, 22:36 | #1 |
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Penrite steering box lube
Has anyone used this in their steering box?
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Aug 14th, 2018, 23:38 | #2 |
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In some ways much like the fairly common constant velocity joint discussions on the interweb, where the early joints used oil but now they all use grease, a change towards a grease in a steering box kind of makes sense (especially for versions that are famous for leaking - I'm thinking Land Rover series boxes in particular)...
...however using the Penrite product selector even they don't recommend it. Still I reckon it is worth an email to see what falls out the tree (when you give it a shake) if you're so inclined. I'd be interested to see what they have to say - but as I'll be using oil I'm not so interested to arrange this myself!
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Aug 15th, 2018, 09:02 | #4 |
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https://www.mgbits.com/contents/en-u...ube-500ml.html
I use it at work in the steering boxes of Bentley Derbys, 4 1/4, 3 1/4 etc but they are very old (1930s to 40s) manual steering. It is a very very thick oil almost like a grease. |
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When I owned a Daimler 2.5 V8 there were some posts on the club's forum that recommended it, particularly for leaky boxes.
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For farm applications where a gearbox seal is failed, some people use corn head grease. I have used it on a brush hog gearbox that was cracked and wouldn't hold oil. Seemed to work fine.
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Aug 16th, 2018, 08:53 | #7 |
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I don't see any reason you can't use semi-liquid grease myself.
It is used muchly over in the world of aircooled Volkswagen where the steering box on early Transporter (splitscreen) notoriously leaks almost as soon as you re-seal it. I used it in my old bus and in fact, the steering was much better and kept the old steering box clean at last. I used it in my previous Amazon which also had a for what ever reason had an incurable leaky steering box. It was frowned upon when I mentioned it on this forum. But, you know....
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Aug 17th, 2018, 08:48 | #8 |
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A few days ago: It was late.
I was a bit bored with the TV. I started a thread on the series 2 club forum asking if others there had used Penrite steering box lube because if there was ever a steering box that leaks it is a Series Land Rover steering box... ...not a great reaction to be honest - but I guess people are still on holiday. Anyway I ended up sending an email off to Penrite asking about the suitability of their product for Land Rover series steering boxes. They think it is a suitable thing to use and claimed to use it personally. I reckon I might buy some of the stuff to see how it feels between the fingers and how liquid it is - because if they reckon it is good for a Land Rover steering box (and I agree!) then I can't see why a 1960s Volvo steering box wouldn't also benefit from a more modern alternative. (So if and when I get some I'll post back)
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Aug 18th, 2018, 11:54 | #9 |
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I have got some on order...will let you knoiw how it goes
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Aug 22nd, 2018, 17:31 | #10 |
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Update on Penrite steering box lube
OK-- Phoned Penrite and they could not have been more helpful..all my questions dealt with..........................
so got rid of the EP90 out of the box---straight forward. Then comes the interesting part...getting semi fluid grease in the box--- straight forward with the top off but it would have been easy with the top in situ and using a large syringenor a funnel. The constituancy is easy to work with. Took the car out...seems OK ..have a trip to the Durham Classic Gala on Monday, a 200 mile round trip.
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