Snowblower gear lube. - Page 3

jerkin · #21 12-09-2016, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by cubs-n-bxrs

Travis you can purchase 0 weight grease in tube form from Napa. It's made by Lubriplate. About 5-6$ for a tube. I just bought a tube the other day. It's what I lube up my suspension on my Skidoo with it. It's extreme pressure white lithium grease.

I picked up a tube of Lubriplate NO. 105 (only kind they had) when I was at NAPA today looking for seals for this gearbox. Is this what you bought? It is a white grease and I looked it up on the internet and it is 0 weight but it says it's for engine assembly. You think it's ok to run in these gear boxes? I grabbed a tube figuring if nothing else I'd use it when we put my Daughters atv engine back together over the winter.

Nobody has these seals in stock BTW and they are obsolete in the CC part diagram, anyone looking to rebuild the gear box in the future should order them ahead of time, they're just 1.75"x1.25"x0.25" single lip seal with the spring inside. I came up with a cross reference of SKF 12360 and TCM 12172 if that helps. Can't swear that's the right number but it's what I ordered. NAPA wanted $10 each, I ordered them from Amazon for $3.50 and free shipping as an add on item to a $25 order. The Wife ALWAYS has $25 in her cart, lol.

J-Mech · #22 12-09-2016, 02:37 AM

Lubriplate 105 is an engine assembly lube, not a grease or a gear lube. It turns to a liquid at a fairly low temp. Not good for gears. You also don't need it for an ATV engine. I don't even know which ATV you are working on but most use roller bearings. You don't need grease for those. So glad I spent so much time explaining what use, and you didn't listen.

Yeah, never order seals from CCC even if they are available. Too expensive. I'll save you some headache figuring this out too: same is true with bearings. I don't know if you got the number right or not.... that's your issue, but I wouldn't buy the cheapest thing I can find off Amazon. You want to do it over when your el-cheapo seals leak? Turning wrenches on your own stuff is fine. Cheap stuff is out there, and your free to use it. There's a reason it was only $3.50 and comes with free shipping. I prefer certain "name brand" parts when I work on my equipment.... but I've spent a year or two doing it for a living....

cubs-n-bxrs · #23 12-09-2016, 06:18 AM

I guess I must have miss spoke it's actually called lubriplate low temp multi purpose grease. Grease type is Anhydrous Calcium. Been using it my 450 snow blower gear box as well as lubing all the lube points on my Skidoo. Zero problems as of yet.

jerkin · #24 12-09-2016, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

Lubriplate 105 is an engine assembly lube, not a grease or a gear lube. It turns to a liquid at a fairly low temp. Not good for gears. You also don't need it for an ATV engine. I don't even know which ATV you are working on but most use roller bearings. You don't need grease for those. So glad I spent so much time explaining what use, and you didn't listen.

Yeah, never order seals from CCC even if they are available. Too expensive. I'll save you some headache figuring this out too: same is true with bearings. I don't know if you got the number right or not.... that's your issue, but I wouldn't buy the cheapest thing I can find off Amazon. You want to do it over when your el-cheapo seals leak? Turning wrenches on your own stuff is fine. Cheap stuff is out there, and your free to use it. There's a reason it was only $3.50 and comes with free shipping. I prefer certain "name brand" parts when I work on my equipment.... but I've spent a year or two doing it for a living....

I didn't really think it would be good in a gear box since it was assembly lube but I just bought it because I was there and it was only $6. I'll use it for something. I'm just going to mix up your concoction and use that, I already have both ingredients here.

The seals I bought are made by Chicago Rawhide, I've used them before with no problems, the seals that were in it however were ones I'd never heard of, can't think of the name off the top of my head. A lot of the parts for that box aren't being made anymore, that's one reason I decided to tear it apart. Couldn't even get the gasket.

At this point I'm just waiting on seals, already have everything disassembled and cleaned. Cut out a new gasket on the bar last night while the Wife and I were watching television.

jerkin · #25 12-09-2016, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by cubs-n-bxrs

I guess I must have miss spoke it's actually called lubriplate low temp multi purpose grease. Grease type is Anhydrous Calcium. Been using it my 450 snow blower gear box as well as lubing all the lube points on my Skidoo. Zero problems as of yet.

I figured it must have been something different. What do you do, just squeeze the tube into a grease gun? Not enough snow here in Pa for snowmobiles anymore.

J-Mech · #26 12-09-2016, 11:44 AM

RTV would have been fine on the case. It will seal it up better.

jerkin · #27 12-09-2016, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by J-Mech

RTV would have been fine on the case. It will seal it up better.

Oh I kicked it around a little but I just hate dealing with that crap if you need to take it apart again down the road and I didn't have a good tube of it since I rarely use it, already had a sheet of cork, lol. This wouldn't have been too bad though, you have a nice wide surface to work with and the only thing in the way when scraping is those two guide pins but they tap out.