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[Indiana Robinson]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Herbert Metz <metz-h.b at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Francis, would appreciate a few minutes email or  phone call tomorrow p.m.(if your schedule permits).  Subject is adding grease to trans oil to reduce leaks, etc on my old Horse Troybilt tiller. Herb
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Hi Herb:

Been building horse fence and running errands all day then Diana came
home from visiting her mom at the nursing home over in the next county
and she had found a really nice saddle at a bargain at a yard sale
over there and wanted me to look at it (we did buy it).
*
Now I am sitting here watching "Lost" and I am lost... :-)  Not sure I
have enough brain left to follow it all.
*
I had a non Troybilt tiller that was leaking badly at the seals and I
took the filler plug out and put in a bushing and a grease fitting. I
greased it every time I used it and it worked fine for years. I did
the same thing to a concrete mixer gearbox that leaked badly. We used
to have a New Idea corn picker that called for removing one bolt and
pumping chassis grease into the gearbox (bevel gears) as its only
source of lube. I seem to recall that the old Deere 45 combine corn
heads I used called for the same thing.
I have two Troybilt Horse tillers but neither leaks yet. I've never
had a Troybilt gearbox apart.
If I were going to put grease in one I might give some thought to
adding some powdered graphite in there too or maybe using some Slick
50 grease.

-- 
"farmer"

"Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
Morris Moulterd


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Francis Robinson
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