OT--Easy application of Grease to Gear Box

G6 at Snook, TX

Well-known Member
Last week, I asked a few questions about my Danuser to sell. This week, I need to ask about grease to their gearbox. Have any of you developed a farmerized grease deliver solution that can push large quantities of grease? If need be, I will stand there and squeeze a trigger for 1/2 an hour on an old grease gun, but I need to put a good deal of grease (3 lbs.) into the gear box.

Before anyone asks or suggests, Danuser uses and recommends grease (EP from Deere or Red and Tacky from Lucas for example) to lube the gear box rather than oil common in shredders and the like.
 
Do you have an air powered grease gun? If not you need to
get one. You will wonder how you ever lived without it.
Seriously. You could get a couple of tubes in there no problem
and no cramped hand. For grease I always use the Lucas
green - I think it is their heavy duty or extreme use. It doesn't
seem to separate out and weep out of the gun. It isn't cheap
but Lucas products are worth it.
 
I used John Deere CORN HEAD grease. $ 3.50 a tube. I bought a Lincoln Battery Operated grease gun. Works slick and fast. Has two speeds and a counting button. I use it on my mini excavator and compact track loader. For years I greased with a std grease gun. I can't believe how much easier life has become with the new power grease gun.
 
I'm not familiar with the Danhauser spec spec but I recommend CNH pourable high EP oil for gearboxes that need a flowable lube yet tend to leak 90W. It is pourable but much thicker than 90W. Of course you would want to pour it in the summer rather than on a cold winters day.

I use it in the steering boxes of my vintage Fords with good results and have used it in the gearboxes of rotary cutters that would would seep 90W past the seal(s).

Dean
 
wow.. they actually specify a NLGI #2 grease? I'm surprised they don't think it will cavitate.

usually gearboxes like that use lighter like 0 or 00
 
http://danuser.com/attachments/older-attachments

This page deals with the update for the pto shaft, and when you go into the gear box to do the work the grease you replace the old with is near the bottom of the page. I am not replacing the pto shaft, but the proper grease is important to me on a good piece of equipment.

After the conversion has been made and the gearbox is assembled, you will need to add 3 lbs. of Shell Alvania EP2 Grease (old name-Texaco MultiFax-EP2) or equivalent. DO NOT ADD OIL TO THE F-SERIES GEARBOX.
 
How big is the fill hole?

On fills with a decent size fill hole,
I take apart my grease gun, pull the rod back to its catch.
put a new tube in, take the cap off the tube,
hold it tight up against the hole,
trip the rod off the catch.
grease goes in , about a half second.

Squeeze bottles and a small hole,
hold the tip tightly in the hole,
poke a small hole in the bottom of the bottle,
use your air nozzle in the hole....gently, very low air pressure.

In both cases, what you are filling MUST be vented.
If it doesn't have a vent, take out a high bolt that enters the chamber, besides your fill hole.

Also, if your grease gun has an air bleed fitting like my old one,
I suppose you could plumb off that into the fill hole,
and put some air to the back rod hole on the grease gun.
 

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