I've spent a few hours searching the previous posts here on the subject of gear lube. I just came across the following on the net. I didn't notice anyone mentioning this before. WARNING! The following text contains the "F" word.


The heart of any gear system is the lubrication, and thanks to Gary Stroebel of the Shade Tree A's Model "A" **** Club, we have THE secret recipe from the Horseless Carriage Gazette, July/August 1985. Attention Wives: Do Not Read This! This recipe will yield 6 pounds of the best old gear lube in the country and is ideal for those old-style gear boxes.
Take 5 pounds of 90W gear lube (between 2 &3 quarts), 1 pound heavy long fibered wheel bearing grease (not this new lightweight, high temperature stuff), and 1 can of STP motor oil treatment.
Pour and/or scoop the above ingredients into a container four to six inches deep. Then take your wife's multi-speed electric hand mixer and mix for 15 to 20 minutes. The reason for using this type of mixer is that the two beaters will pull the material into and through the beater blades, dissolving the wheel bearing grease into the mix of 90W oil and STP.
The resulting mixture closely approximates the old 600W of gear lube. This is an excellent, quiet running, gear lube. As a word of caution; the borrowing of the mixer is best done when the wife is not at home. In the author's case, he now has his own "private" mixer since some of the "good old gear lube" got up the mixer stems into the motor housing and then oozed back down the stems into the whipped potatoes.

Has anyone tried this? I have an old can of Alemite No.4 wheel bearing grease that's extremely stringy. I've never used it for anything except latches etc. I'm thinking about giving it a try in my 31. With those ingredients I can't see it would hurt anything and who knows, it might be a miracle lube.

Comments?

Why go to all of that work and expense (especially if you ruin your wife's mixer) when 600W is readily available? Even the Filling Station sells it.

AMEN to that! You can get it from most antique car supply houses. Here in MN I got mine from "Little Dearborne".