Re: (ET) ER8-36 transmission oil

["Mike Wallace" <metman glasgow-ky com>]

You really shouldn't need to.  

The 700 series Peerless transmissions used just plain old grease and not an
oil.  The only way to check out the condition of the grease already inside
is to split the case and look.  Unless you have strong reason to think 
there
is something wrong, my suggestion is to leave it alone.  

If you do split the case, then consider just adding a little more grease,
assuming it hasn't gotten wet and/or hardened and caked up.  If that's the
case, then just dig out the old grease with whatever; fingers, putty knife,
and add in about 12 ounces of new grease.

Mike in KY

-----Original Message-----
From: elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu
[mailto:elec-trak-bounces cosmos phy tufts edu] On Behalf Of David Roden
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 4:22 PM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
Subject: (ET) ER8-36 transmission oil

Does anyone know how to drain and refill the transmission on an ER8-36 
rider

(more precisely in this case, a New Idea R-36 rider), and what type of oil 
to use?  Mine's never been touched, as far as I know.  The rather 
incomplete

ER8-36 pdf "manual" that floats round the 'net is mum about such matters.

Thanks!


David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA

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