farmal H steering gear box

I have a pretty bad leak in gear box. Would axle grease work ?
Also, I drove it when out of oil ( very hard to turn) and now have play in the wheel.At least a 1/4 turn. Is there an adjustment for that?
 
I'd use something lighter than axle grease. I've been using light grease in my tractors for years with no problems. As far as the slop in the steering, you may be able to take the top off the gear box and adjust the sector gear and worm gear some but it's probably going to be a bigger repair.
 
I"ve been thru all that. Sadly, there is no adjustment. What I found is a person can rotate the sector gear, and that"ll help a little. A person can invent shims and what-not, and try to push the bearing / worm gear sideways, and that might help for a while, but not a permanent fix; it"ll work it"s way loose again.
I finally bought a new worm gear / shaft from this site, and it was a nice permanent fix. Had to re-tighten the top nut once or twice, but it"s fixed now. While I was in there, I pulled in new seals, rigging up a home-made seal puller of sockets, washers, duct tape, etc.,etc, and pulled in new seals.

As far as grease, I whip up my own 50-50 concoction of red wheel bearing grease and 90 wt. gear lube, in a coffee can with a coat hanger and my drill, to the consistenct that seems right, to where it pours in S-L-O-W-L-Y. Works great, stays put. Plus, it"s red.
 
When you have the top off make sure you check the bearing on the end of the shaft from the steering wheel. Former owner put in new gear but not bearing. Some of the balls were even missing. New bearing helped quite a bit
 

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