Knudson isn the first person I have seen advocating using lithium grease instead of oil. Whats the problem using grease?
Dick didn’t write that material. He just edited the book, pulling together Tech articles from TSO and other places. Some other guy wrote the technical articles. I forget his name… 🙂 (Nice tuch Chip) Anyway, you’ll get lots of argument about oil versus grease in the steering rack. The advantage of oil is that it creeps into all the corners of the rack better than grease does, so is more likely to provide passable lubrication even if you don’t use enough. On the other hand, grease will get into all the cracks and crevasses just fine *if* you pump plenty of it in. It has the advantages of not requiring a separate gun, and of staying in the rack instead of running out. If you have an oil gun or a bulk-load grease gun that you can put oil in, then use oil. If not, use grease. Either will do the job. Thanks for your thoughts on this on going controversy. There have been some VERY heated arguments in our local Register regarding the use of oil vs grease in the steering rack, with many peo
