The swap to power steering is pretty straight forward and all bolt on. Yes there is a thin gasket between the cover and the housing (it can be easily made from gasket material if you can not find one). The shop manual says fill with water resistant EP chassis lubricant so a good quality wheel bearing grease is fine. Hang on the manual box as they are much harder to find than the power units, I needed one for my 65 and I had to rebuild the original, I got lucky and found NOS gears and bushings.
Chum Nault -----Original Message----- From: chevelle-list-boun...@chevelles.net [mailto:chevelle-list-boun...@chevelles.net] On Behalf Of GCP Tech Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:58 AM To: chevelle-list: chevelles.net Subject: [Chevelle-list] Manual Steering Box I'll be replacing a manual steering box with a power box in a 1968 Chevelle, it appears to bolt into the same location...is there anything I should watch out for? The manual box has lubricant leaking from under the plate with the thrust adjuster thingy. Should there be a gasket between the body and plate? Looks like someone packed it full of (red) general purpose wheel bearing grease. Is this the proper lubricant? Granite City Performance custom engineered competition components http://www.granitecityperformance.com/
