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Snipesville, GA | IH/CaseIH cornheads are measured with a dipsick for gearoil. Cornhead grease is thicker and does not level like oil. How full do you fill the gearboxes? I have thought about filling the gearboxes to a safe full point, running the heads to get grease hot and then check level again. How do you guys check cornhead grease in a IH/CaseIH cornhead? I also have waterpump bearings in the same head (CIH 1064) how do you check the bearings for replacement? |
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| We don't use "corn head grease", we use gear lube like you're supposed to. The only reason to use something thicker is if you have a leak. If you have a leak now is the time to fix it. All that you're going to accomplish by using grease is make the head pull harder. |
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Pilot Grove, Missouri | My Gleaner cornhead uses grease. You are supposed to run the head to warm the grease before checking. Patrick |
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Grawn Michigan | Our 863 leaked on the top side of gearbox where the chain drives. Some boxes had enough wear that seals would be a temporary fix at best. We were adding oil to a couple boxes daily. We found some washers to fit over the shaft and used some silicone sealent and pressed washer into it with the drive gear. Then we added part of,a tube of the grease to thicken it up a little. Not really a proper fix but has worked 2 seasons and we only add oil once or twice a week. If you get into replacing gearboxes and shafts it get pricey very fast and used heads we looked at seem to be as bad off as what we have. |
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Amherst WI | That might be the case but IH heads require 80W90, not grease. Buster is right. |
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| The 10XX and older take 75/80/85-140. The 22XX and newer use the tubes of Grade 00 grease. I don't think the gearboxes lubricate properly on the 10XX with grease. That said I'm not so sure I wouldn't dump a tube of it on top of some gear lube to keep the leaks down. Can't hurt that much. The grease kept an old auger and woods mower alive here that oil would run out of like a sieve. |
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| Case heads do use grease. When I had one, we filled it up to within an inch of the top. Never had a gear box problem. |
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| deersniper - 8/18/2011 19:12 Case heads do use grease. When I had one, we filled it up to within an inch of the top. Never had a gear box problem. What model is suppose to use grease? The 800/900/1000 heads are supposed to use gear lube. |
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Near Richmond, IN | Must just be the older heads up to the 1000 series that use oil. I had a 1063 that used oil. Traded up to a 2206 and it has the grease in it. |
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IH Cornhead & cornhead grease level in gearbox
