Corn head grease

Lawrie

Lawrie

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Any one noticed that the cornhead grease has changed,
in the carton I bought about 2 yrs ago the grease was light green colour,
I bought a new carton yesterday and the grease is a far darker colour.
I,m still going to use it .
Lawrie
 
Hi Lawrie, I bought a carton in Melbourne about twelve months ago and the grease is a fairly dark green. Have not bought it previously. Its in my 34 steering box and it has not seized up yet. Don't leak any more either !! Regards, Kevin.
 
Rob, its great on the BBQ for cooking snags,
The local JD dealer only has it in cartons so its easier to buy that way.
I just changed the rear end ratio on the 33 and the UJ was nice and covered with the ch grease,it had done about 1000miles.
Looks like wife Carol won re the 99a engine and it will stay in for a while,just ordered a new 10in clutch from fort wayne,$65 freight,so will see how long.

Kevin,I also may try some in the steering box,it may be cheaper than the steering box lube from penrite,
Lawrie
 
Sorry, but gotta ask: what's a "snag"?

Always heard Aussies have brass whatcha-call-it's, and if you cook in John Deere grease, it must be true.....

Gordon
 
From the good old internet..............

Snag
Australian for sausage.
"Buy a few snags and we'll have a beer and a BBQ."
 
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Getting back to the corn head grease, the last tube I bought didn't seem to be as "runny" as the stuff I used before (both John Deere). The latest stuff seemed to be quite a bit thicker and doesn't flow like it used to.
 
Tagman, I found 1/2 an old tube and it is definatly a different colour ,I will look at the consistency this morning.
Lawrie
 
We also call them mystery bags .. Snags. Gettin a bit fancy these days they even put garlic in them ..geeez!:rolleyes: :D

Penrite semi fluid grease I bought for $13 a tube Lawrie. Works good in the steering box, finally slowing down the leak!
 
Up here they say you'll never eat sausage or hot dogs if you see them made - maybe they "snag" anything they can to put in 'em.

Per this forum I bought CH grease for universals (I think; been a while) - should it be in the steering box too?

Gordon
 
malpais said:
...should it be in the steering box too? Gordon
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Yup, I'm gonna use it for a Valentine's gift too! It's wonderful medicine.

On topic: What I've used is the light-green stuff. But not recently purchased. Despite the lubrication theme, this thread may have some traction.
 
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I recently bought 3 tubes of the original green Corn Head Grease but decided not to use it when I saw what happened in my U-joint with it in it. I'll send the three to anyone for the cost of shipping if you want them.
 
Old Henry said:
I recently bought 3 tubes of the original green Corn Head Grease but decided not to use it when I saw what happened in my U-joint with it in it. I'll send the three to anyone for the cost of shipping if you want them.
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What happened? Do you have photos? I was planning to buy a couple tubes on Monday at the JD dealer.
 
SofaKing said:
What happened? Do you have photos? I was planning to buy a couple tubes on Monday at the JD dealer.
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I have had JDCH grease in the steering box and U joint of my '35 fordor sedan for the last 25k miles. Stopped the leakage problem I had when using gear oil in the steering box and improved the ease of steering. I inspected the U joint about half way through those 25k miles and it is doing fine. If the U joint is worn to begin with, putting JD or any other lube in there is not going to fix that problem.

https://www.greenpartstore.com/mobile/John-Deere-Special-Purpose-Corn-Head-Gun-Grease-AN102562.html
 
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What happened? Do you have photos? I was planning to buy a couple tubes on Monday at the JD dealer.
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I have been using corn head grease for several years. Whenever I removed and re-installed the torque tube I would pack the U-joint cavity with corn head grease. I had just pumped a whole bunch into the U-joint cavity just a few weeks before I had to open it up to replace the worn out U-joint.

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The worn out U-joint wasn't much of a surprise with the length of time it had been vibrating. The shocker was that when I first pulled the torque tube back and saw this scene there was no corn head grease in there. It was all gone. I could not fathom where it all went until I removed the torque tube from the differential and there it was, all piled down at the differential end of the torque tube. When agitated it became fluid enough to flow past the front torque tube seal and drain into the torque tube. I expect that could be one of the main reasons my U-joint wore out.

Here's the rest of the story about the U-joint. It's pretty interesting. It's had 4,863 views and 47 comments: http://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132859
 
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I wouldn't be relying too much on this grease in the uni. Iam convinced that the majority of any greasing is for between the inner and out shells. The gearbox has an open bearing and the only seal that is there is the one that sits behind the roller bearing in top of the torque tube. THe gearbox supply's a small about to keep this all working.
 
Talkwrench said:
The gearbox has an open bearing and the only seal that is there is the one that sits behind the roller bearing in top of the torque tube. THe gearbox supply's a small about to keep this all working.
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That's what Mac VanPelt told me too - that oil leaks from the transmission into the U-joint space and thins regular grease quite sufficiently to not have to use thinner grease in there. That's another reason I went back to regular grease in there and abandoned the corn head grease.
 
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