Originally Posted by
JLock
Wow!!!! Looks like a couple of Black Cat firecrackers were dropped into the gearing!!! I had that happen to the plastic gear but would have never thought that it would happen to the metal gear. Looks like the old HPI finger-styled two-speed clutch is not working out and Kyosho my need to revisit this and put the shoe-style clutch into the car (like the OFNA, ugh, I hated to say that!!!).
I figured with the metal gear i could let 1st gear wind up to about 40,000 rpms before it shifted. I guess I was wrong.
Lee