I very much appreciate all the replies in this post. Your (y'alls) expertise is impressive, but your willingness to help is outstanding.

It was a sequencing issue. Followed the (Cub) yellow brick road and it fell into place. Hopefully, now it will stop puking lubricant.

I inherited the CC 128 from my father-in-law who bought it new in 1974. My son and I restored it together, and now i'm hooked.

Thanks everyone! Great to be a Cubber.

More creeper info needed
 

Folks,
(not trying to hijack this thread but it has good info!)
I don't harass you guys much any more but have a general question on these creepers. Yes I have a problem. I have a 102 with a creeper. Loaned it to the grandson and he brought it back with the handle for the creeper removed and said the only way he could get the tractor to move was to hold the creeper lever forward past the normal stop. Well I played with it a little last night and yes something is messed up. When I put the creeper lever back on the tractor it would not move in low or high.
I took the handle extension off again wiggled it forward and back ward some and finally got it to engage in both hi and low.
My gut feel is that this will have to come out and be repaired?
Regards,
Chris

Your gut is probably right Chris.

The yoke where it contacts the shift collar will wear, the pin hole in the yoke and the pin can also wear and the hole in the handle can wear as well.

Some of these points can wear naturally but more often the wear is caused from the lever being forced. It usually takes years of use for this wear to be noticeable from the operators seat.

It has to come out as Yosemite Sam wrote. It may be as simple as worn pins or worn out parts.

I make levers and poppets if you need replacement parts.