Glenn My brother Geoffrey whose name you might have seen on the forum gave me a lot of advice as I was doing my conversion. When he was building up, I think his first 400, he reconditioned the rack and used a grease nipple and grease. Because the tolerances were very tight he found that when using grease the steering was quite tight. At the time he suggested to me that as I was not reconditioning my rack that grease should be ok. It might pay to contact him for two reasons .1/ would grease be ok in your situation and 2/ why are you loosing so much oil into the rack . As I said I am using oil in mine and have not at this stage had a problem. Either contact him through the forum or he may see this post and answer.
Do you have nipples in the upper and lower pins , the two steering arms and the king pins ?
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