Corn head grease

[Charlie M]

I've seen posts here in the past about putting corn head grease in a gear box that won't stop leaking oil so I'm wondering if it would work OK in the steering gear box on my H. A couple of years ago I changed the seals and bushings but it still leaks oil so I'm wondering if the corn head grease would fix the problem. Also I found it on line as a John Deer product. Does it come under any other name or is that the stuff I should get.

 

[Bob Bancroft]

It should work fine. I have it in two mower gear boxes. I've found it on line in a quart bottle. 00 grease, I believe.

 

[FBH44]

My H leaked steer box grease, found that it was missing the bottom grease seal. Replaced that, then blended up a 50-50 mix of red RED!! wheel bearing grease and 90-wt oil, with a coat hanger in my drill in a coffee can, slowly poured that in, and it has held for 12 - 15 years now. MUST BE RED to work properly.

 

[gmcdeadhead]

i have it in two of my rotary mower gearboxes and it works great i just check it every couple of months and add it if it needs it , i fill it all the way up , i also have it in my steering gearbox on my W4 , works great in there also , i found that it was cheaper to get it from my local john deere store compaired to ordering it online

 

[caterpillar guy]

When I have shopped around in the past it was about the cheapest was the Deere dealer. Yes that is what you want for it. I have some in an auger gear box running PTO speeds.

 

[oldts]

Try adding a tablespoon of brake fluid to the oil that you have in there, the brake fluid will make the seals swell up, we use it in the mill where I work, as long as youre seal is not torn it usually works

 

[crsutton81]

You will be fine to do so by filling it with cornhead grease. I did likewise on a Farmall 100's steering box several years ago and it is working good. I have also found it to be cheaper to purchase it through our local JD dealer.

 

[Wisconsin Ron]

Cornhead grease works great in farmall worm steering gearboxes and new holland rolobar hay rake gearboxes.

 

[SinkholeRoad]

(quoted from post at 15:16:38 02/14/23) I've seen posts here in the past about putting corn head grease in a gear box that won't stop leaking oil so I'm wondering if it would work OK in the steering gear box on my H. A couple of years ago I changed the seals and bushings but it still leaks oil so I'm wondering if the corn head grease would fix the problem. Also I found it on line as a John Deer product. Does it come under any other name or is that the stuff I should get.

I bought a bucket of EP0 grease and put it in the steering gear of all of my letter series Farmall tractors. So far none of them have leaked the grease and all of them were leaking oil. This is what I bought. It was cheaper than John Deere corn head.

SINOPEC EP0 EXTREME PRESSURE MULTIPURPOSE LITHIUM
GREASE

This post was edited by SinkholeRoad on 02/14/2023 at 09:57 pm.

 

[Tom in Mo.]

I once bought a M-M tractor at an auction and was gonna treat it to a transmission oil change and when I went to drain it, a black goo slowly started oozing out. The PO had filled the gearbox and rear end with corn head grease.

 

[JohnRowehl]

I was advised by a retired Oliver mechanic to use corn head grease in the steering box of my 77. Bought it from the New Holland dealer.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

The spec you are looking for is EP0 or NGLI Grade 0. There are dozens of sources.

 

[F-Dean]

What is Corn Head Grease? I have greased a corn head many times but always used Gun Grease!

 

[matthies]

It's a solid grease that liquifies during use, every manufacture made it, even the local coop had their own brand back in the day.

 

[Graysonsutton]

Deere corn head grease should work it worked so good on my siervs bush hog I ended up making a plunger to push the grease out easier.

 

[jrslv]

When I bought my "new" used Kodiak rotary cutter the gearbox was filled with some brown "syrup". I didn't know what that liquid was (and nobody on this forum could tell me) so I drained it for good measure. Now I have some corn head grease to put in it, but I'm not sure how it works...

Question 1: how do I know when the grease becomes bad and needs to be replaced? With oil it's simple: just open the drain hole and see what is coming out of it. But this grease is very gooey and it solidifies when cold, so I suspect nothing will be coming out of the drain plug.

Is opening the gearbox case the only way to check the status of the grease?

Question 2: How do I clean old grease when it becomes bad? Just adding fresh grease to the old one doesn't sound right. I guess we do it all the time with regular thicker grease because the old stuff dries up, but I'm not sure how it's gonna work inside an closed gearbox.

Do I simply pour in regular 90 weight oil, let it run and then drain? Would that work?

 

[crsutton81]

When I bought my "new" used Kodiak rotary cutter the gearbox was filled with some brown "syrup". I didn't know what that liquid was (and nobody on this forum could tell me) so I drained it for good measure. Now I have some corn head grease to put in it, but I'm not sure how it works...

Question 1: how do I know when the grease becomes bad and needs to be replaced? With oil it's simple: just open the drain hole and see what is coming out of it. But this grease is very gooey and it solidifies when cold, so I suspect nothing will be coming out of the drain plug.

Is opening the gearbox case the only way to check the status of the grease?

Question 2: How do I clean old grease when it becomes bad? Just adding fresh grease to the old one doesn't sound right. I guess we do it all the time with regular thicker grease because the old stuff dries up, but I'm not sure how it's gonna work inside an closed gearbox.

Do I simply pour in regular 90 weight oil, let it run and then drain? Would that work?

I can't say that I have seen any cornhead grease go bad, but I reckon there's a first for everything. My experience has been that it will real slowly disappear somewhere and needs to be occasionally topped off with fresh to keep an adequate level maintained. If you knew your cutter gearbox didn't leak, I would rinse it out with maybe some diesel fuel, then refill with 90 wt gear oil. If it does leak, it can always be filled with the cornhead grease.

 

[Tom in OR]

I've had cornhead grease in the steering box of a Ford 8N for the past 10 or 15 years. Works great in the prone to leak Ford steering gearboxes! Drilled and tapped the casting and installed a grease fitting. No mess, easy to top off any time.

 

[Poonie]

I had an old M37 army truck that had a leaky steering box. I put corn head grease in it and never had another issue with it. I'm planning to use it in my cubs steering box as it has slowly ------ itself all over my garage floor.