Lubercation

I have a 34 Buick and was wondering what brand and weight i should use for the rear end and steering gear and trans box... any special type of anti freeze?

Thanks

Bump for a 1932 Buick, too!

I use the heaviest I can find....

So far, I have been able to find SAE 250 WT gear lubes in five gallon pails (Shell Dentax and Texaco Thuban). But these lubes are hard to find unless you go to an industrial lubricants dealer.

I have found the heavy lubes actually work well to slow the gearbox gears for quicker shifting in my older Buicks.

I tried several weights in the steering box of my '39 and finally on the advise of other owners, put chassis lube in the steering box ( I happen to use Mobil 1)

Barney,

If grease is what you refer to as chassis lube, you will eventually have excessive wear in your steering box.

Grease will not flow back into the spaces between the gears as gear lube does.

Mark, can you clarify? What do you put in the differential?

Thanks.

I use the heaviest I can find....

So far, I have been able to find SAE 250 WT gear lubes in five gallon pails (Shell Dentax and Texaco Thuban). But these lubes are hard to find unless you go to an industrial lubricants dealer.

I have found the heavy lubes actually work well to slow the gearbox gears for quicker shifting in my older Buicks.

Bob,

Go visit your friendly John Deere dealer for your lube.

Big loads and low speed lubes are the best. Especially for straight cut gears.

Never use chassis lube in a steering sector by itself. The model "A" guys use either 600 wt or what they call "mud" which is 1/2, 90 wt gear lube and 1/2, graphite laced chassis lube.

Mike in Colorado

Both the transmissions and rear ends get SAE 250 WT gear lube in my older Buicks.

My 38 Special calls for SAE 90 WT in the transmission, but the rear end gets SAE 250 kWT.

Keep in mind that viscosity is measured in different ways:

[h=3]VISCOSITY EQUIVALENTS CHART [/h]

www.golftechs.us/Reference/viscross.pdf

Thanks Mark.

Both the transmissions and rear ends get SAE 250 WT gear lube in my older Buicks.

My 38 Special calls for SAE 90 WT in the transmission, but the rear end gets SAE 250 kWT.

Keep in mind that viscosity is measured in different ways:

VISCOSITY EQUIVALENTS CHART

www.golftechs.us/Reference/viscross.pdf