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Tom Fleming

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I am rebuilding an H4 mag. I searched the archives and found a couple of threads on what grease to use. I saw everything from chassis grease to Lubriplate, to di-electric silicone based grease.

some of the posts were back to 2006. Anyone have feedback or experience to share on this subject?

I am leaning towards Lubriplate.
 
Tom, I am interested in this to!! It was 15F Saturday and I need to move a Regular and F-14. The inpulse on the regular snaped good and I got her started. But on the F-14 snaped once or twice than nothing. must be gummed up stuck needs cleaning and thin lube so it works in cold weather. oldiron29
 
Oldiron, my thoughts exactly. Not too thin, but not too thick. Will be interesting to hear the feedback and experiences. Also interesting to note the Blueribbon shop manual states that when you oil these through the oilers, it is to keep the mag grease thin. We will see what comes of this.
 
Tom, I get most of my mag parts from
John Brillman Mabe I will can him and see what he say's Oldiron29
 
I talked to the magneto shop that builds my magnetos and he told me if the magneto has an unsealed bearing they use a good grade wheel bearing grease to pack the bearing and for the bushings they use Lubriplate 105.
 
Old time grease used to be pretty thick and got hard after a little heat ran the oil out of it. It would separate pretty easily. Modern grease is so much better, it will not ever get hard, but of course gets stiffer at cold temperatures. Everybody has broken old grease out with a screwdriver but not new grease.

We've been advised to put gun grease in wheel bearings since the 1980's but most still prefer to buy real wheel bearing grease. Me too.

Probably any good grease these days is far superior to the best magneto grease available when these tractors were new.
 
(quoted from post at 06:42:28 01/04/10) I am rebuilding an H4 mag. I searched the archives and found a couple of threads on what grease to use. I saw everything from chassis grease to Lubriplate, to di-electric silicone based grease.

some of the posts were back to 2006. Anyone have feedback or experience to share on this subject?

I am leaning towards Lubriplate.
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I rebuild magnetos and use wheel bearing grease for the bearings.
 
If you use a new synthetic wheel bearing grease in the bearing you will not have to worry about it getting thick.
 
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