My new 1948 Cub made the trip from PA to KY without any mishaps. It arrived late Sunday evening and I haven't out of the garage since then, with the exception of eating, bathing and sleeping. It came with a sickle cutter, cultivators, double plows, draw bar and dozer blade. My wife says I reminder her of a kid, at Xmas time, sitting in the floor surrounded by all my new presents. She also says I smell like the tractor?
Except for a little blow-by, it runs like a top! So all I'm going to do for now is lube and change the fluids.
Anyway, I have been going through Clem's "What to do with the Cub you just bought" list and I have a couple of questions.
1. The owners manual says to use SAE 30W oil, is that set in stone. seems like I have read somewhere on this forum that other weights can be used.
2. The owners manual says to use SAE-90 for tranny, steering gear, rear axle, etc. Would a synthetic blend SAE 75W-90 work as well?
I downloaded the Owners Manual and have the Service and Parts Manuals on order from Binder.
Thanks,
Larry
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Re: New Cub
straight 30 wt or a 15 40 is good for summer. as far as gear lube and engine oil I would stay away for any synthedic and or synthedic belends. Reason being your cub may have the original leather seals. synthedics will disolve the leather seals. I have seen it happen many times. as far as gear oil wt I use 80-140. been good for years.
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1938 Farmall F-14
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- Location: KY, Morgantown
Re: New Cub
Thanks for the quick response, off to the parts store. I might get all this done before dinner.
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Re: New Cub
I only use GL-4 gear oil or Hy-Tran in the transmission. There was some discussion here about this topic last spring:
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Re: New Cub
I ran 10W30 conventional in my crankcase for plowing this winter and will switch back to straight 30W for the summer. I second the opinion on using synthetic gearlube.
Jim
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1938 Farmall F-14
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Re: New Cub
So I got straight SAE 30 for the crankcase and GL5 80W-90 gear oil. Had to order a oil pan gasket, so I'll just do the gear oil change today and do the oil change this week-end.
Thanks for your inputs guys. Like my son-in-law said, there have been a lot of changes in lubricants since 1948 and without knowledge/experience from the folks on this forum, it would be easy to make a costly mistake.
Thanks for your inputs guys. Like my son-in-law said, there have been a lot of changes in lubricants since 1948 and without knowledge/experience from the folks on this forum, it would be easy to make a costly mistake.
1948 Cub
Cub-22 Mower
Cub-54 Leveling & Grading Blade
Cub-144 Cultivator
Cub-189 Moldboard Plow (direct-Connected, One Bottom, Two-way)
Woods 59 Mower
Cub-22 Mower
Cub-54 Leveling & Grading Blade
Cub-144 Cultivator
Cub-189 Moldboard Plow (direct-Connected, One Bottom, Two-way)
Woods 59 Mower
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