Rode the Super C

leon · Aug 11, 2013

I drove my Super C about 50 miles yesterday on a tractor ride out of Shell Rock, IA. Nice ride, some nice scenery, nice folks, great food and perfect weather. The '52 Super C ran flawlessly but is getting to have quite a bit of noise in the gear train

Wayne in MN · Aug 11, 2013

What gear lube is in the transmission?
If you put Hy-Tran in it, try using 90-140 gear lube.
The older tractor gears need a little more "cushion" to keep them quiet.

Pete76NY · Aug 11, 2013

As a matter of course, all of our old girls get a gallon of Lucas in the tranny...biggest most noticeable change I have ever seen was the whine in 5th of our Super H...when we got her she whined real bad, flushed, refilled with the new HyTran was some better, added the Lucas...virtually gone! Rides are fun! Planning one now for our club in So. Tier of NY in conjuction with a huge breast cancer benefit started by one of our members daughters who lost her battle! Great benefit: tons of door prizes, bands, food, things for kids, we have an antique tractor run, a poker run for bikes and a hot rod/classic car run handled by our local hot rad club, then everything is on display when we all get back to chow! Great community event!

leon · Aug 11, 2013

I see a bunch of Lucas products on their web site. Which of their additives did you use?

John M · Aug 11, 2013

Just curious, why did you put Hytran in your Super H? Should have gear oil in it.

leon · Aug 11, 2013

Yes, I was thinking of going to 90-140. I think I put 80-90 in it, as the op manual called for. For sure the warmer it gets, the more noisy it is. When I got the tractor nearly 10 years ago, after removing the gearbox drain plug I had to poke a screw driver up into the case to get anything to run out. I removed the belt pulley/PTO housing, sprayed in diesel fuel and used a stick to scrape and stir in order to clean it out some.

Pete76NY · Aug 11, 2013

Yeah my mistake...80-90 but it was CIH brand so I just called it Hytran

Pete76NY · Aug 11, 2013

...bot I do run HyTran in all of our numbered series Deeres that way if the seal happens to leak at the IPTO iy's no big...seems to work fine.

Pete76NY · Aug 11, 2013

Back when I started using it there was just Lucas oil additive...worked great makes oil stick to the gears and such alot better, now I see they have a Lucas for everyplace just; trannys, power steering...I just use the regular Lucas Oil additive

Pete76NY · Aug 11, 2013

With the weather chages here in NY ya get a lot of condensation so even though it's not cheap every cpl years when things get looking too milky we drain fill with kero run it around at a good clip hit some bumps then drain that and new fluid...little expensive but sure beats running em with al that moisture in there!

leon · Aug 12, 2013

I don't seem to have much trouble with condensation around here in NE Iowa. I keep my tractors in an unheated shed with concrete floor. It's well vented. Maybe once in an average winter will I see condensation on the cast iron of a tractor. Several times I've loosened a drain plug in the spring before running to see if I can get any water out before oil, but that never happens. I've not spotted any milky oil either.

mkirsch · Aug 12, 2013

Lucas is probably like that "GOOP" glue.

GOOP comes in about a dozen different "types" for various special purposes. It's all exactly the same stuff.

Lucas for this, Lucas for that. It's probably all the exact same stuff.

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