Leaking at open hole in the center of the steering box cover

[Adam H P15 D30]

The steering box in my 49 would leak out over a years time, I mixed a slurry of gear oil and bearing grease to the consistency of pancake batter.  No more leaks.

[BobT-47P15]

Has been quite a while, but I think I ran a length of plastic coated wire up through the steering gear box and steering column as a guide/puller for the horn wire.  Just need to make the knot of the two wires small as possible.  Horn wire is attached to that "T" piece in the center of the horn works inside the steering wheel.  Just thought I would mention this process while on topic of the box.  

Someone once said that if grease is too thick in a steering box, the gears will eventually push it over to the sides....so I don't think a person should use the same grease used to lube your car.  May be at least 2 cents.it's worth there, maybe.  ?

 

[wagoneer]

This corn head grease looks amazing. Googling and surfing YouTube a bit shows people using it in everything from transmissions to to steering boxes. 
 

 

This grease does have some magical properties to change its viscosity back and forth so regularly; I wonder what is the expected lifetime of the grease.

doesn’t talk about heat transfer properties but a very cool solution for small gear devices probably those without solenoids .
 

I wonder if anybody had tried in their m5/m6 transmission ?