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Benedict Arnold

Anyone here have any experience switching a Peerless transaxle from grease packed to oil filled?

I know people do it and they used to come oil filled or grease packed.  
An oil bath is unquestionably better that grease packed IMHO.   Just wondering if anyone has done it themselves.  There's brass bushings in them I believe so I know picking a brass/bronze safe gear oil blend is important. 

Anyone have anything to say about it?

Posted - December 20, 2016
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  • 1615
    The oil packed is absolutely the best, the grease gets swept away from the gears and the oil will keep them constantly lubed.
      December 20, 2016 1:01 PM MST
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  • Well I pretty much agree.   They only come grease packed these days but they still leave a fill hole but never drill out the drain hole.

    I have one garden tractor that is about 12yo and I plan on opening the transaxle anyways to get the old grease out.   I'm kinda just thinking of switching it to GL-1 gear oil.   Prolly a 75w-90.   Not sure though, I might just leave it how it's been and repack with good marine grease.
    Oil lubes better, cleans the gears, and is better for inspecting problems but I'm just wondering if anyone has experience with it and if they ever had any issues with oil seeping out since there isn't any real seals on the axle.
      December 20, 2016 1:09 PM MST
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  • 6988
    Grease seals may not be leakproof enough for a liquid. I used to work on the drive gears on a Yamaha 80cc  4 wheeler from about 1990.  We used a special semi-liquid lubricant from Yamaha that was between a grease and an oil. I put STP oil treatment (a very thick liquid) into my leaky roto-tiller drive and that stopped it from leaking. I don't know if you can get the STP in the thick style anymore, but it worked.
      December 20, 2016 1:42 PM MST
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  • Yeah STP or Lucas oil treatments are usually recommended to add to the gear oil to thicken them up for this application.
    I'm just entertaining the idea now.  I may just stick to bentonite grease.
      December 20, 2016 2:06 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Is this Russian? 
      December 20, 2016 1:42 PM MST
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  • Nope.  Not even close.

      December 20, 2016 2:06 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Then hitting on me with all those naughty words?
      December 20, 2016 2:08 PM MST
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  • lmao...

    What am I going to do with you? This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at December 20, 2016 2:24 PM MST
      December 20, 2016 2:20 PM MST
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  • 17261
    I could have sworn it was Russian, I didn't understand one word of it. Oomph.
      December 20, 2016 2:24 PM MST
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  • Наклонитесь и выглядеть сексуально для меня
      December 20, 2016 2:33 PM MST
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  • 17261
      December 20, 2016 2:40 PM MST
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  • Хорошая девочка. Иди к папочке.
      December 20, 2016 2:51 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Да папочка.
      December 20, 2016 2:54 PM MST
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  • Готов за наградой?
      December 20, 2016 3:04 PM MST
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  • 17261
    "Кегли"..?
      December 20, 2016 3:09 PM MST
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  • Me! Me! I can fix it!
      December 20, 2016 2:26 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Oh. Do you speak Russian too? Am I the only one not getting this? Sheesh.
      December 20, 2016 2:30 PM MST
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  • It's all very naughty you know.
      December 20, 2016 2:36 PM MST
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  • 17261
    That's what I'm saying. All this talk about grease..?! Is that a kind of code name?!
      December 20, 2016 2:41 PM MST
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  • Someone named Peerless can't decide whether to use grease or oil on their bushing? Oh yeah.
      December 20, 2016 2:48 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Dang, that's it. That bush has got to go!!
      December 20, 2016 2:55 PM MST
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  • You can help me build a mud mower?
      December 20, 2016 2:34 PM MST
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  • I'll bring my biggest hammer.


      December 20, 2016 2:44 PM MST
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  • explosion surprised hammer construction worker
      December 20, 2016 2:47 PM MST
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