Manual Steering Box Rebuild Questions

Spent a little time to try to find a answer for this did a little research on Fords (because I worked for them for 15 years) recommendation for manual steering boxes and found they use NLGI #2 grease which is the same grease they recommend for wheel bearings at least since the 70,s it has molybdenum disulfide in it. My 63 Plymouth service manual in the steering gear repair section says do not use gear oil in the steering gear to use "a good grade of multi purpose lubricant" ie grease or steering gear lubricant when possible.It also says to pack 11 ounces in the gear. But in the maintainance section they say you can add gear oil to it. This may have been so the grease would not harden up. So my conclusion is to pack the box with NLGI #2 grease and when you service it down the road use small amounts of gear oil. Note NLGI and NLGI #2 are not the same grease.I do agree with some of the statements above about not using wheel bearing grease at least for the older long fiber wheel bearing grease

Brian