wiping out clutch bearings
#31
Tech Champion
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IMO, if your regularly blowing up clutch bearings somethings not aligned right or shimmed right. As to removing grease from the bearings, if it maks you feel better then go for it. Or, you could just pop em in run a tank through and then take the CB off and wipe any excess grease out. Problem solved.
#32
Tech Lord
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Man I use to do the same thing and check them before every main. Now throw them shim them corectly and run them for Andes races. Use a descent bearing and they will last a few races. The losi hd bearings are great and the tko special bearings are great as long as you install them correctly. The blue seals face the inside of the cb ao they face eachother.
#33
Why would I pull the engine out, remove the clutch bell and clean it again if I could just spray the grease out of the bearings in the first place? Sounds pretty stupid to me. Plus what happens when you want to put a fresh set of bearings in for a long main? Do you stop one tank in and pull your engine to clean the grease out? LOL. Just spray them out and you won't have the problem in the first place. I don't see why it's so hard for you guys to understand. It takes like a minute per set of bearings. It really isn't that hard to just do it the right way.
#34
Tech Champion
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Man I use to do the same thing and check them before every main. Now throw them shim them corectly and run them for Andes races. Use a descent bearing and they will last a few races. The losi hd bearings are great and the tko special bearings are great as long as you install them correctly. The blue seals face the inside of the cb ao they face eachother.
#36
Just don't try to pass it off as a necessary part of clutch maintenance.
#37
Tech Master
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Werks clutch set-up. It was always a P.I.T.A. to
keep set right. When the parts from two other centax
style clutches were swaped into it we got it to work
properly. But even then it would still super-heat the
clutch bells and fry the bearings. I don't know of any
bearing that will stand up to that much heat. Like stated
above, it was a passing fad that everyone just had to try.
If it's that great a clutch set-up, then why aren't the
Werks pro drivers using them?
#39
Tech Apprentice
Bottom line, the grease has no business in the clutch bell. I too use the one run then wipe out the grease method. Since doing this, my cheap protek rubber sheilded bearings will last multiple races. Clutch shoes last near 3 gallons with 1,1 springs. I have temped CBs vs installing them and letting them go with no cleanup. Huge difference. 50 degrees more heat when you dont clean them out. Another good tip I recently figured out is to dremel off the hard anno. on new shoes. Massive difference in engagement and shoe life..
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#42
Tech Champion
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I don't know about you, but I usually like to have a clutch for those 4 minutes. You act like 4 minutes doesn't matter. LOL so funny. You're telling me you let the grease "burn off"(clutch slipping) for the first 4 minutes of a main? That's a great way to get off to a good start.
#43
Tech Elite
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Take it easy...
I don't know about you, but I usually like to have a clutch for those 4 minutes. You act like 4 minutes doesn't matter. LOL so funny. You're telling me you let the grease "burn off"(clutch slipping) for the first 4 minutes of a main? That's a great way to get off to a good start.
#44
Suspended
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i use the cheap .99 cent bearings in my losi truggy with losi clutch setup, i dont do anything to them, just throw them in and race, have never noticed any slippage, a bearing will usally last me 4 racedays, 3 quilifers and a main each race day, (not A-MAIN) lol... the greese the factory adds to the bearing is pretty much for shelf life and isnt enough to worry about at all, very very little is used, i feel when you "blow the greese out" and add a couple drops of bearing lube, pretty much just doing what factory did for you and is a waste of time. just my opinion guys, everybody has one!
#45
Tech Champion
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I put new clutch bearings in my buggy every three to four racedays. The first 4 minutes is during practice before the first qualifier. I take my engine out after the first raceday and wipe down the bell and brush off my shoes and the bearings are fine, and check everything after every race day, no big deal really. To each his own, we all have our methods, and it's fine to have a difference of opinion. Just don't bash Labrat and I for doing things differently than you...