Manual Steering Box Rebuild Questions

The service info would have believe that the box holds 80/90 gear lube. If you have the box open I am sure that you can see it is not gear lube.

Once long ago I read somewhere that the best substitute for the original lube is a homemade concotion of 80/90 and bearing grease/chassis grease. What I read was you take equal parts of gear lube and bearing grease and put it into a coffee can. Take the coffee can outside and heat it up until it mixes and then pour it in before it sets up and hardens back into grease. I have never tried this, but it is what I remember reading.

They were very clear on the heat it up outside part, it is supposed to make quite a stink.