Grease recommendation for MU-2 Winch

Posted by Northern Calif Dave on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 11:57AM :

1948 MU-2 winch.

The gear housing gets loaded with 90wt oil (or whatever viscosity depending upon your conditions). VPW also recommends cornhead grease for the gears.

My question relates to the various zerk fittings and required greasing on the drum and at the brass bushings. Braden recommends a minimum of a NLGI Grease rating of 2 or better Moly type grease.

Does anyone recommend a specific type product? Where can you buy it?

The drum is essentially hollow with zerks on both ends. How much grease in the drum is enough? Potentially it could be fully loaded with a couple of pints filling the entire hollow, but it wouldnt really do anything since there is no metal to metal contact in the hollow.

Follow Ups:

• Re:I use my winches very often... - John Eickhof 0:58AM 11/17/2004
  • Re:I use my winches very often... - Northern Calif Dave 11:37AM 11/17/2004
  • Re:I use my winches very often... - Keith in Washington 11:20AM 11/17/2004
  • Re:I use my winches very often... - Tim Holloway 7:32AM 11/17/2004
    • Re:I use my winches very often... - Jerry Henry 10:07AM 11/18/2004
      • Re:I use my winches very often... - Tim Holloway 2:14PM 11/18/2004
• Re: Take a look inside... - dave horvath 7:57PM 11/16/2004
  • Re: Take a look inside... - Northern Calif Dave 8:06PM 11/16/2004
• I may be wrong --- - Mark S. 12:35PM 11/16/2004
  • Collector Vehicle? - Kaegi 10:09PM 11/16/2004
  • Re: I may be wrong --- - Northern Calif Dave 2:05PM 11/16/2004
    • I'd still go --- - Mark S. 3:38PM 11/16/2004

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