Rack Refresh

[Rasta Monsta]

Just received a manual steering rack from the salvage yard. Turns nicely, but I still think I'd like to clean out all the old grease and regrease it. Anyone over done this? Recommendations?

Thanks!

[kmakovac]

the biger problem is the little piston and his spring,it have years of dirt and if the piston don't push the rack it have more play(bad feeling)

i suppouse that clean the rack with fuel and then regreas the teeth,inside of piston and the end of it will be fine

[RedBaron]

I cleaned the rack entirely and put in new VW Steering grease The manual recommends using VW Steering grease on the actual rack itself (Number AOF-063-000-04.) I bought it from World-Impex (one of the few places that does have it.)

Genuine VW / Audi GREASE (AOF-063-000-04 / AOF06300004)

[AA_Ezra]

I took mine a part as far as i could with basic tools and cleaned everything up and used the same recomended valvoline grease recomended for c.v axles here and Honda Moly 60 Paste mixed at a 50/50 and straight and a little more Honda Moly 60 paste on the little piston that is the center of the rack as i would imagine it does not move much. The VW grease was too much hassle for me to order and seemed to be a high molly content anyways so i made my own. been working great for about 1 month now