Maintenance and Service
Manual transmission (4-gear)
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Proceed as follows for changing the oil:
– Change oil only with gears warm after operation.
– Park the machine on level ground.
– Put an oil-resistant collecting vessel of sufficient size underneath.
– Unscrew the two oil drain plugs (3) (they are at the bottom corner of the transmis-
sion case and the bottom of the reduction gear); the old oil drains out.
– Clean metallic residue from the magnetic oil drain plugs (3). The replace the plugs
and tighten them.
– Open the oil filler screw (1) and fill in fresh oil into the filler neck for so long, until
the oil level is in the upper range of the inspection glass (2).
Prescribed oil variants: Fully synthetic gear oil
API GL5, SAE 75W-90 as per ZF stan-
dard TE-ML 05B
Filling volume: Traction drive with 1 traction drive engine
approx. 12 litres
Traction drive with 2 traction drive
engines
approx. 12.4 litres