Series IIa Steering Issue

[stomper]

If grease has been put in there, you may be in for a horrific mess to get it back in order. I can't imagine the grease would get in there too far because of it's viscosity, but also, how would the air get out to allow the grease to even get into the relay with that set-up? You would still need to remove one of the bolts to allow air to escape, or blow a seal out to let the air escape that way.

[o2batsea]

00 grade grease like one shot swivel grease is pretty flow-y.

[stomper]

But you don't add that by a grease nipple.

[Andrew IIA]

Need some photos.

[o2batsea]

But you don't add that by a grease nipple.

You could in theory, but who wants to muck about with all that. You'd simply use a needle point grease gun fitting in the screw hole. I don't think that that would do anything for this fellow, tho.

[LaneRover]

Looking closely at my relay, I see that mine has a grease nipple on the top right (next to the radiator). Annoyingly this is pointing backwards(!) so I am having no success in getting a grease gun onto it - but the grease nipple doesn't look standard to me... has anyone seen or have any experience with one of these relays?

One of mine has that and I have just ignored it as I could never get to it. I am trying to remember if it was on one of the joints as it is currently in another state and has been a few years since I have seen that bit.

[Kiloengineer]

After you get all the mechanical things sorted be sure to adjust the alignment. I did mine with string and a ruler and found that a minor increase in the toe-in to the correct spec made a huge improvement in the wandering. Just a little too much toe-out will cause the rover to wander.

[warrenperkinson]

An update… I've now had the alignment done. The toe in was 6 degrees out on the right front. Drives WAY better now, but there is still room for improvement. I've not pursued the relay grease nipple issue as everyone has warned me off that - so I'll ignore it and try to add EP90 the conventional way. Also I feel there is a little more adjustment that I can do in the steering box but that will have to wait 'till I have the time. Thanks for your suggestions.

[siii8873]

you can use 90wt in a grease gun.