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After respreading the grease on the gears, the drill is a whole lot less draggy, though it has never rotated as smoothly as an electric drill. I know most people don't choose to work on their power tools, but I wish manufacturers would make the service manuals available to the consumers...

I have a Ryobi ER-160 gas powered hammer drill. I haven’t used it in quite a while, and when I started it up, it was dragging, though the engine was running fine. I thought I’d take out the 4 bolts holding the gear assembly to the engine and then grease the gears. I found it very challenging to...