Reply To: John Deer Corn Head Grease

[Dale]

Ron, I was skeptical like you about gear case grease.   Some old motors have no seals at all.   Some have leather seals.  Mercury’s have problems keeping lubricant in there cases especially older ones.   I decided to try the “O”  grade stuff.   At the end of the season I drain the water, whatever I can get out of the gear case,  poke the grease in the opposite fill hole and force new lube in until it looks new coming out.   Put the plugs back in and I am done.  So far so good!  I like the Picker Head grease that Tractor Supply has.  It comes in a squirt bottle and it is easy to use.  It is strange stuff.  It does not mix with water and it is hard to clean up with solvent.  One of our members uses a heat gun to melt the grease to get it out of the case.   I also have this stuff in a roto-tiller gear case.   That old tiller keeps going and the worm gears are totally shot so I know it lubricates very well!

hope this helps

dale