The end tube or steering rod is generally not was seizes up. It's the
steering cable inside the casing that gets rust in it due to condensation.
Forcing grease like you are trying to do will not prevent the problem.

Ron

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Greetings,

My steering was stuck solid, so I disassembled and removed the entire
assembly, and replaced it with a new Teleflex Safe-T steering system.
I think I figured out why the steering stuck, despite the fact that I
grease the steering rod regularly. When you extend the steering rod
and grease it, an O-ring wipes all the grease off as it retracts into
the tilt tube. When I disassembled the system, the steering rod was
dry as a bone.

While installing the new system, I cleaned the tilt tube out with
engine cleaner and a wire brush. I then ran pieces of an an old
t-shirt through the tube until they came out clean. I stuffed grease
in one end of the tilt tube, and liberally greased up the steering
rod.

The problem is, the grease on the steering rod was sheared off by the
tilt tube as I inserted it, and the grease I inserted into the tilt
tube was pushed out the other side.

I extended the steering rod all the way out, greased it, then turned
the wheel to retract it into the tilt tube, but each time, the grease
is wiped off by the close tolerance of the steering rod and tilt tube.

How the heck do you get grease into the system, when there's such a
tight tolerance between the steering rod and the tilt tube? I've even
thought of using air pressure to force grease into the system, but
there's got to be an easier way!

HELP!! 8)