Super A Steering Gear Lube

On the steering gear housing according to the operators manual there should be a vent plug (Illust 25D, page 25). I have also seen in the Parts Catalog that there was just a plug there, like a pipe plug (its optional I think). Mine has a pipe plug but I dont see any vent anywhere. I can stick a knife blade up inside the plug a ways but it dont appear to have a vent hole there.

When I undid that plug it looked like greese in there and not oil. The plug is right beside a grease fitting so is it suppose to be oil in there or greese?

One other comment - Whose bright idea was it to put a filler hole on the side like that for the Steering Gear Housing oil?

I flows a bit, to lube better than thicker grease, get doesn't drip as quickly out of leaky seals as oil does.

I pick it up at the DEERE dealer, but I would think CNH must have something similar.

None other than Mr. Hugh MacKay...who seems to have more practical experience with these machines than any other poster here...advised me to fill my leaking steering housing with grease...and I did! Works great too! Apparently somebody has already remedied your leak in a very practical manner. Oh, put the grease fitting in the drain hole..leave the filler plug open while pumping in grease to allow air to escape.

While I was waiting for the replies I filled it with oil then drove it down the street about three blocks and when I got back there was a stream of oil running out. I will drain that out and put that greese fitting in like yall say. I dont need any more oil leaks! Plus I am going to look closer for that air hole. Ill get a needle and jab around and see if I can find it.

Mark, The parts cat. shows two kinds of pulleys on page 29. It also lists two or three optional ones on pages 30 and 31. Copy and paste the url below and see if that helps you any.

http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Super%20A%20-%20Super%20AV/TC-39B%20Parts%20Catalog/index.html

Al

I am going to try it with the gear oil first but if that dont work I am going to use the grease I think. I have replaced seals and gaskets until I am blue in the face.

I did find the breather hole in the plug. I had sand blasted that thing and painted it and looked for that hole two times. The hole and down in the plug was full of dirt, guess it had been there for forty years or more.

When I started draining the fluid out of the steering box first there was what looked like water then thick oil (like baby poop), then gummy clumps of gook. I am going to put the plugs back in and fill it with 30wt oil than drain it again just to get some of the old stuff out. I'll fill it again with the gear oil after that and see if it leaks.

I went to the old IH place and the guy there said they use to fill it with grease then top it off with gear oil.

I called a few places here but cant find that Cornhead Grease. The Case dealer had heard of it but didnt know where to find it either.