Re: Re: Gear Lube in Final Drive, and a rage

Posted by Doug in OR on September 27, 2002 at 09:36:56 from (12.225.51.197):

In Reply to: Re: Gear Lube in Final Drive, and a rage posted by Bus Driver on September 27, 2002 at 06:52:26:

I assume you are talking about 90W-140 gear lube, bus driver? What you say is partially true, but it behaves like 90 weight oil at the rated winter temperature - usually 0 degrees C. It will flow better at colder temperatures, but at warm temperatures, it will look like a 140 oil. BTW, 140 gear oil would NOT have the same thickness of a 140 engine oil - if such an oil existed. I've never researched HY-TRANS oil, but if that abreviation means what I see it as meaning, this oil would also be used in a hydraulic system. That adds a whole new twist to the equation.

Suffice to say that today, you can get gear oils rated as GL-5 ... even the old GL-2 gears oils aren't made any longer. And the GL-2 desigantion was made a full generation after the older 50's tractors. No matter what modern gear oil yo use today, it will definitely outperform the OEM spec oils for an older tractor.

Yes, I'd stick with 90 gear lube - unless you had some seal leakage and a thicker oil would reduce that problem.

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