Cornhead Grease?

Mike Groom · Jul 21, 2012

I read of guys recommending cornhead grease for steering sectors on tractors,is there another name for it or a spec. so I can find some? Thanks

Anonymous-0 · Jul 21, 2012

I got something from the Valley dealer for center pivot gearboxes that leak oil. I don't know the name of it but it works. It reminds me of the Ricron (sp) grease we used to get for the central lube system on a corn picker that we had. Kind of expensive though.

john in la · Jul 21, 2012

Call your local John Deere dealer and ask him if he has part # AN102562
It comes in a tube for a regular grease gun. About $3.50 per tube.

If he does not have it you can check around for grease that meets specs.... NLGI grade 0

Dean · Jul 21, 2012

Dean

Both JD and MF have it. It is OK for steering gearboxes that leak and will not hold the recommended oil but there are other alternatives.

I recommend CNH high EP pourable grease for both steering boxes and rotary cutter gearboxes that leak a bit and will not hold 90W. It's about the viscosity of a 00 oil and is high in EP additives.

At $14+/qt, its a bit expensive but two tubes of JD cornhead will be nearly as costly.

Dean

paul · Jul 21, 2012

Unlike oil, it firms up to a creamy grease when at normal temps.

Any time something warmns up a bit, it melts it down to a flowable close to a 90 weight, unlike real grease that needs to get pretty hot to start flowing.

So it's the cat's meow to put in leaky gear boxes that started life using a gear lube.

Agco has a similar product. Don't see it real often in the Napa/ TSC type stores, oddly.

--->Paul

Jon Hagen · Jul 21, 2012

John Deere corn head grease is a very good polyurea grease that will flow back into the parts with just a little heat.
I also use it in power tool gear boxes, as it flows back into the gears (#00 grade IIRC) instead of caking up all around those hot dry gears like hitemp #2 grease will do.

Oliver 550Dave · Jul 21, 2012

Would Cornhead Grease be okay/safe to use in the transmission of a Troy Bilt "Horse" Tiller? It's an older, 1978, model. I know that I really need to replace the transmission oil seal, but I also wonder if there might have been enough wear that the seal won't "do the job" now as well.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 21, 2012

I got a tube at the jd dealer to put in the gearbox of the little roto tiller a few weeks ago

James Howell · Jul 22, 2012

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JMS/.MN · Jul 22, 2012

IIRC it"s EP3. Used in the NI discbine cutterhead gear boxes. Plastic squeeze tubes, rather spendy.

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