Originally Posted by jjahn

Are we going to get shipping notifications today for our factory lites!?!?

Originally Posted by Tbone17

I bought my B5M off the forums here, it came with a gear diff installed and a bout drives.amongst the spare parts.

Tonight I cleaned and rebuilt the ball diff, tore out the transmission, split the cases and replaced the gear diff with the ball diff. When I closed the cases I found to my surprise that the diff slides side to side between the bearings. I'm guessing that what was given to me was not actually for this car. The gear meshes properly and the outdrives fit the bearings properly but the outdrives either need spacers(none shown in the manual) or are are incorrect as the shoulder for the bearings inner race isn't in the right spot.

Any ideas? Unless I'm missing something it looks like I'll be buying a new ball diff that's actually for this car.

Originally Posted by timannnn6

Matt Trimmings....Your avatar makes me think of Cherry and all the drama we're missing in here (well....maybe not ALL the drama). 22k+ posts and getting temp suspended stops all of his postings?

Crazy!!!

Ok...back to B5M discussion.

Originally Posted by jjahn

I was just thinking about asking about that and sending a pm. I remember seeing him post all the time when I was in the hobby 3 years ago. Getting back into the hobby over the past couple of months I saw this avatar and it made me chuckle. Then the other day when doing a search and I was reading a topic he created this year about using liquid wrench. I noticed his account was active, for some reason I thought it was banned, I was confusing the avatar as banned and not suspended, any way strange.

Originally Posted by Matt Trimmings

He was suspended late last year for some comments he made. It was a 30 day gig and he just never came back. He doesn't respond to pm's in my experience though.

Originally Posted by Seeds

I use diff spacers. They come I brass and steel. They are of different thickness to shim correctly. I install thr diff on the side the input shaft is on and check how the diff gear lines up. Add shims over the outdrives till the diff gear matches up (lines up) with the idler. Then put the other half of the case on with everything in it..as if you were ready to assemble it all. Once tightened, check the play of the ball diff. If it still wiggles too much, un-screw the case again and add a shim or 2 depending on how much room you think it is moving. There should be a little wiggle side to side when the case is all together tightened as normal. Just putting the case together and holding it by hand will not give you the correct effect. Add or subtract shims as needed. Again, should not be tight..need play. They also make shims (McMaster carr) that also fit the input shaft to eliminate play. These need to be put in between the input shaft flange (where the bearing rests)and the bearing
NOT between the bearing and the case on the end of the gear side of the input shaft (22 teeth side) as this doesn't work.
Search McMaster Carr for the correct shims.bi found some HPI trans shims that worked perfect from the Blitz. Hope that helps.

Originally Posted by KrAcOn

It's 4/20 and the 5bm_Lites are not showing in stock on Tower/Amain still. I had a thought the other night of canceling my preorder and getting the Yokomo YZ2 instead.

Originally Posted by CTRJ

I didn't pre-order and just ordered one. $245 with the Super Saver discount. Not too bad!