Is this gear oil safe for my Buddy 50?

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Nintari
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Is this gear oil safe for my Buddy 50?

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I guess this is a little bit late, considering I already bought the stuff and changed it myself, but I want to make sure. I think I did my homework and got the right gear oil. Please reassure me that I did, indeed, not totally just ruin my scooter. lol

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What did your LOCAL shop say?
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Yes. You did well.
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RoaringTodd wrote:What did your LOCAL shop say?
I didn't go to my local shop because local for me is about an hour and a half away through toll roads. That, and I had bad experiences with them. I just relied on finding my own info the best I could online. I used these forums in conjunction with other places and tried to do the best I could.
DeeDee wrote:Yes. You did well.
Thanks be the maker lol. This isn't the first time I've changed oil on something, I've done it on cars before, but it's the first time I've ever done it on a scooter and it was all fairly straight forward. My goal is to become totally self sufficient and do all the maintenance myself. This was the first step into a larger world.

By the way, you should have seen the gear oil that came out of that thing. My god, it was almost brown! I changed it right around the 290 mile mark so I didn't expect it to be THAT gunked up. Is that normal?
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Post by babblefish »

I buy my oils from my local Autozone or O'Reillys. They're all over the place around here.
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Seeing that you were in Chicago I assumed there were several shops?

Ah I know the feeling of not being confident in a local mechanic. Happy scooting! I enjoy wrenching on my rides, but I also am glad there are scooter shop options when I fubar things up.

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Post by Stanza »

FWIW, the last I heard, the Chicago shop (assuming you're talking about Scooterworks on Damen?) was under new management and had a new service staff.
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