[AT] grease for gearboxes

[Chris Britton]

For many years, cornhead and other 0# grease has been the 'easy' repair of 
choice for ford steering boxes that had slightly worn seals.

Soundguy

>From: Greg Hass <gkhass at avci.net>
>Subject: Re: [AT] Gearboxes and grease
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group
<I'm pretty sure about this info but if wrong please correct me. A couple of
>years my cousin rented a 3 row corn head for his forage harvestor. It had a
>system where every so often you pump a plunger something like 6 strokes and
>it would grease the whole header at once. The grease would be pumped from a
>reservoir through plastic tubes to all the bearings. The grease had to be
>heavy enough to stay in the bearings but thin enough to be pumped through
>the system; thus the name corn head grease. I have not tried it myself but
>for a leaky gear case it would be my first choice.
>Greg Hass