WC Final Drive Oil
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Topic: WC Final Drive Oil
Posted By: KY
Subject: WC Final Drive Oil
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 2:43pm
| Would EP "00' grease be close to the specified 250 weight oil called for in the book for the final drive oil on a WC? |
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Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 3:33pm
| Can't tell you. If it was mine the axle/wheel hub bearings would get packed with wheel bearing grease and I'd throw in several tubes of "corn head grease" in the gear case. Probably 6 tubes to a side if I was guessing. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 3:57pm
00 grease has the consistance of apple sauce... That ( or 0 NLGI) would be comparable to the corn head grease that Dr mentioned.. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: 55allis
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 10:13pm
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Would 85W140 work? That’s what I put in my wd and Wd45 final drive… Never change a WC’s though. ------------- 1955 AC WD45 diesel with D262 repower, 1949 AC WD45 |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025 at 10:48pm
| i use alot of 00 grease on things here , a lot on the lawn and garden gear boxes it will get were it needs to be in there and stay |
Posted By: DrAllis
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 6:24am
| That's the deal with an RC -WC or WF. All they have for a seal around the wheel hub is a large diameter cork gasket that is prone to seepage when oil is used, which is what they used back in the day. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 6:31am
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that’s why I have corn head in my WC, its best property is the fact that it goes back to a semi-thick state as it cools and this stops a lot of the seeping that comes when they sit. ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 7:47am
| Yep we packed all of the bearings with grease already. I was not sure if corn head grease would lube that top bearing enough, that is the route we will go. thanks for the info! This has been a 4 year long nut and bolt resto so we wanted to get it right. |
Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 31 Jan 2025 at 7:49am
| 85-140 is too thin for a WC . There is a big cork "seal" that is very prone to leaking |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2025 at 10:10pm
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It's been a while but I thought a new rubber seal was at one time available from AGCO. I was going to restore a WC many years ago and I investigated things like that when I worked at a dealership. Been 30 years ago though. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: EPALLIS
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2025 at 12:57am
| I don't remember a lot about our WC. But I sure do remember Dad having a good supply of SAE 140 around to keep her lubed up. |
Posted By: Phil48ACWC
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025 at 6:27am
| In my '48 WC I replaced the large cork seals with the new rubber ones. I greased the rubber seals with heavy grease and added preload to the seal by adding a shim ring made from a plastic 5 gallon bucket. I use 85W-140 gear lube with almost no leakage. Working great now for 3 or 4 years. All the brake box seals were replaced along with brake linings about 5 years ago. A WC with brakes that work, rare and amazing! |
Posted By: ekjdm14
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025 at 7:27am
Wonder how many members read Morse fluently   |
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