Mixing #00 grease with old Bentonite grease. OK for a lawn mower transaxle?

[OldNoob]

Ok so i picked up an old Toro Wheelhorse and the shifting was a bit stiff and i really did not want to pull out the transaxle . I suspect after about 35 years the Bentanite is probably pretty well packed into the corners. So i added a bit of #00 grease just to make sure the gears and shifter are well lubricated? and that helped a lot. it's much more fluid feeling now.
I honestly don't plan on using this mower very much or very long but it would be nice if it lasted 5 years . But my question is..
Will the #00 accelerate hardening of the Bentonite? And if so how quickly does that happen?

 

[Rand]

What #00 grease?

 

[ripcord]

#00 is just a viscosity resting for grease. It doesn't tell anything about the type is grease.

If you added lithium complex grease, those are not compatible long term.

 

[Elkins45]

I have a 20 year-old mower that’s on its second transaxle. I bought a used one for $75 and after four years it’s starting to shift hard and is really noisy. I drilled a hole in the top of the case and squirted in some cheap gear oil, then plugged the hole. Unfortunately the new lubrication didn’t seem to make much of a difference and I can see a bit of leakage around one of the axles. Before the last time I use it this fall I’m going to give it a big squirt of 00 grease and hope that won’t leak out of the seals.

I’ve been running 00 grease in my brush mower for a few years now and it’s still there after all the gear oil leaked out. I bought a new seal but as long as the 00 grease is working so well I’m not going to bother.

 

[OldNoob]

#00 is just a viscosity resting for grease. It doesn't tell anything about the type is grease.

If you added lithium complex grease, those are not compatible long term.

Ok so after looking at the ingreadients .. The brand of 00 i used is Lithium based. So how soon can i expect problems? Over how long a time period does the interaction take place? Thanks.
After researching it i can see plenty of charts saying not to mix them.. And i am finding other charts that say they are compatible
but oddly i am finding no photographs or videos of the negative reaction examples

 

[OldNoob]

What #00 grease?

Its a gear lubrication that is more fluid than normal HP grease and less fluid than HP gear oil , say for example a a tractor gearbox that uses gear oil has bad seals a farmer might choose #00 grade in place of the gear oil to slow the leak