Too much grease?

[Mr V]

What transmissions? With the ones included with the KOP chassis you'll have to really work at over greasing them. There is a lot of open space in them and the excess grease will be thrown out of the way. Now if you packed the cavity by using say 4 or 5 packets of the size that they give you per trans then yea you'll end up with drag and the transmission heating up. Use 1 full packet per gear box and you'll be fine.

Now if you are talking a Versaplantary then it would be easy to over grease.

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Mr V

What transmissions? With the ones included with the KOP chassis you'll have to really work at over greasing them. There is a lot of open space in them and the excess grease will be thrown out of the way. Now if you packed the cavity by using say 4 or 5 packets of the size that they give you per trans then yea you'll end up with drag and the transmission heating up. Use 1 full packet per gear box and you'll be fine.

Now if you are talking a Versaplantary then it would be easy to over grease.

Versa planetaries run hot at higher speeds and loads, greased or not. However, it's never caused us a problem.

We really need to know the type of gearbox in question.

[Dominick Ferone]

We are using 2 versaplanateries which we set up yesterday with 3:1 ratio and attached the cim motor to.
We had shortened the output shaft of the cim and then added grease to the gears and then some.(we have a tube of grease which we just stuck out hand into and smeared on the gears and inside the housing after closing it up)