Steering gear not designed to be serviced

Posted by JeremyR [161.7.94.24] on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 12:01:00 :

Dodge designed these trucks with much attention to making them serviceable. Why do you think the steering gear doesn't have a drain plug? a simple 1/4" pipe plug at the bottom would allow you to drain the old or perhaps water contaminated oil. Once drained, the steering gear could be refilled with proper lubricant.

It would appear that the gear got filled at the manufacturer and you only added to it if it leaked. All the while allowing decades of crud and water to accumulate. Doesn't make sense that the engineers omited this little detail.

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• Re: Steering gear not designed to be serviced - Daryl in Oz 18:21:51 12/29/2010
• Dodge did not design the steering box - Clint Dixon 18:15:14 12/29/2010
  • Parts suppliers - Clint Dixon 21:44:24 12/29/2010
  • Re: Who made the rears? - chrisnj 20:19:15 12/29/2010
  • Re: Dodge did not design the steering box - gmharris 19:49:24 12/29/2010
  • Re: Dodge did not design the steering box - Kaegi 19:32:08 12/29/2010
    • who´s holding who - clueless 10:18:00 12/30/2010
• Re: Steering gear not designed to be serviced - Kaegi 13:17:33 12/29/2010

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