[Farmall] Gear Oil

Milo milo at milosmachineshed.com
Wed Jul 31 12:50:05 PDT 2013


Thanks for the reply.
Man things sure have changed since I asked that question!
January of 2012 Janet & I moved my parents in with us. No more fun in 
the shop for 2012.
Built apartment for the folks, attached to our house. (pics on the website).
Just now getting back to work in the shop.

Milo

Peace
Milo
milosmachineshed.com

On 7/31/2013 12:40 PM, Jerry Bossard wrote:
> Milo,
>
> I have a 1942 H and I have been using 80-90 Gear Oil in the tranny for the
> past 2 years with no problems.  I do change the oil once a year, but I put
> less than 200 hours on it in a year.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tom Bonjour <tbonjour at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have problems finding GL-4 gear oil. Everything I find is GL-5. I
>> understand that GL-5 is harmful to bronze bushings. Are there any readily
>> available 90W GL-4 gear oils?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Sloane
>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:31 PM
>> To: Farmall/IHC mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [Farmall] Gear Oil
>>
>> Petroleum technology has come a very long way since 1928, and I think
>> you will find that generic 90 weight gear oil should work just fine. It
>> isn't as if your machine will even see a lot of long hard hours of work
>> that might put a strain on that mechanism.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On 12/1/2011 8:20 AM, Milo wrote:
>>> What are you folks using for gear lube in the older units?
>>> I'm restoring a 1928 Russell Road Grader that uses a 10-20 (I-20)
>>> McCormick Deering for power.
>>> I'm using the cast iron "tub" from a 1934 10-20, as the original one on
>>> the grader was broken
>>> at the wheel hub on the right rear.
>>>
>>> Also using the bull gear and some of the transmission gears from the 34.
>>>
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