Steering rack - oil or grease?

[duncan]

Hi - what do people recommend for the Marina Steering rack - I believe its meant to be oil

But back in the day I think Minis used "grease" - and modern racks appear to use grease for lubrication and power steering fluid for the hydraulica

[martinclan56]

It was designed to use oil, although I believe some people have used grease. If you have stripped and rebuilt it, as I did, it can be difficult making it "oil tight" afterwards.

[A_Hogg]

Oil is what I always used

[philmcgrath]

Semi liquid grease was recommended to me and it worked really well. EBay has it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174764207461?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=gt2bXHAaQNG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=l0ndk12DSi6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[andyf]

Semi liquid grease was recommended to me and it worked really well. EBay has it

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174764207...mis&media=COPY

Thanks for the tip. I've always used standard grease.

[Ye Ol Ripper]

I used oil in mine as per the Haynes manual instructions. My recently replaced rebuilt Steering Rack was supplied with oil. However as most other steering racks have grease versus oil, then I can't see use of either being a problem.