Re: 30 steering Box Leak & 600Woil recipe

Posted by Rick Botti on April 27, 1998 at 12:51:00

In Reply to: Re: 30 steering Box Leak
posted by Marco on April 27, 1998 at 12:31:47

Marco,
Thanks, I give it the test you suggested this week. In regards to oil, it makes more sense now, the thickness of the 600w oil varies from supplier to supplier. Don's in Niles seems to carry the thickess oil,but even it runs out pretty fast. Maybe I should follow this recipe I found on the Model A Trader website, and make my own. What do you think, will this stuff work?
The heart of any gear system is the lubrication, and thanks to Gary Stroebel of the Shade Tree A's Model "A" Ford Club, we
have THE secret recipe from the Horseless Carriage Gazette, July/August 1985. Attention Wives: Do Not Read This!
This recipe will yield 6 pounds of the best old gear lube in the country and is ideal for those old-style gear boxes.
Take 5 pounds of 90W gear lube (between 2 &3 quarts), 1 pound heavy long fibered wheel bearing grease (not this new
lightweight, high temperature stuff), and 1 can of STP motor oil treatment.
Pour and/or scoop the above ingredients into a container four to six inches deep. Then take your wife's multi-speed electric
hand mixer and mix for 15 to 20 minutes. The reason for using this type of mixer is that the two beaters will pull the material into and through the beater blades, dissolving the wheel bearing grease into the mix of 90W oil and STP.
The resulting mixture closely approximates the old 600W of gear lube. This is an excellent, quiet running, gear lube. As a word of caution; the borrowing of the mixer is best done when the wife is not at home. In the author's case, he now has his own "private" mixer since some of the "good old gear lube" got up the mixer stems into the motor housing and then oozed
back down the stems into the whipped potatoes.

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