'50-8N Filling Steering Gear Box Tip

PrestonKing · Oct 11, 2016

I thought that I would pass along a tip that help me fill my steering gear box with gear oil. I just finished adding new 90wt EP gear oil to the steering gear box of my tractor. I used a Valvoline Fluid Lubricant Pump (Pt #VV818) that screws onto the end of a gear oil quart squeeze bottle. It comes with a tube that fits into the steering gear oil fill hole. The tractor took about four ounces of oil before oil started backing out of the fill hole with old gear oil mixed in with it. The pump made the job very easy. I would highly recommend it to anyone contemplating this project. For about $5 at my local NAPA store I couldn't go wrong. It was money well spent. Best, Preston

Dean · Oct 11, 2016

I've filled similar gearboxes in the past with a lower unit pump.

Works great.

Dean

Bruce (VA) · Oct 11, 2016

I use a piece of clear plastic tubing over the nipple on the plastic gear oil bottle with the other end in the bolt hole. It's also really handy filling the transmission on an A Model too. Just squeeze the bottle.
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Royse · Oct 11, 2016

Sounds like a great idea Preston.
I use the hand pump that comes in the bottle of lube to fill the
lower units on my outboard motors. I wonder now if that could
be re-purposed to this job as well. I might have to give it a try.
Thanks for the tip!

Hobo,NC · Oct 11, 2016

(reply to post at 06:25:08 10/12/16)

You would have been better off adapting a grease fitting to the fill plug and pump'N JD corn head grease into the box...

OK now dat you dunn settled for 90wt every year remove the steering wheel and pour a little lube down the top of the tube. If you are lucky and have a late box you have a screw you can remove and squirt some oil in it to lube the top bearing...

PrestonKing · Oct 12, 2016

I originally intended to do it that way. The price of a piece of tubing that would fit into the fill hole and press fit onto the squeeze bottle was just a dollar cheaper than the price of the hand pump kit. For the difference in price it was worth it to me to have the right tool for the job. I'm glad I did.

Bruce (VA) · Oct 12, 2016

Makes perfectly good sense to me. If I didn't have the tubing laying around here, that's exactly what I would have done.

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