I opened up the gearbox and it was full of the runny grease. It was clean but I noticed fine metallic specks floating in the grease so I cleaned it out and picked up the correct corn-head grease from JD. It cost $4.50 for a 14oz tube. I just dumped the whole thing in which filled it to the top. I tapped out the 1/4"20 holes for the lid so I could use longer screws instead of the factory thread-cutting bolts. I don't trust them not to bugger up the threads. I de-burred the holes as well. The cork lid gasket was pretty thin so made a new one using the old as a template.
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Rusty 149 project with:
QA42 snow thrower
38" deck
Barn fresh 1811 with:
44c mowing deck
QA42A snow thrower
42" snow blade
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