Re: Steering box seals?

Posted by william george stocker On 2011/9/12 14:35:33

I have just renewed my seals on my 1939 120 last week, mine was leaking just from the bottom but i renewed both.
to make the job easy i took out the whole steering box and striped it down as to get to the seals, i took out both seals and then went to a gearbox repair shop and bought one top seal, on i went to a bearing shop and found the bottom seal i then went back home after about two hours the job was done. You will find that the seals that you take out are mettle one's, take them as a sample. the one's you will buy will be rubber.put some rubber grease around the seal rim - this will make things easy, also pack the seal, this will make the seal-seal.
then get hold of a socket the same diameter as the seal and hammer it home.
Bill.