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Old 10-04-2014 | 01:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Maximo
So here is the message I missed...sorry buddy !

Basically initially you want to bed the shoes in...take the car and pin it to the ground, then give several 2 second burst of throttle... do this roughly 8 times in a row... Then start driving the car around ..being careful not to do any dead stop full power bursts... Just drive the car around slowly at lower throttle for a couple of tanks.. The lower throttle allows the clutch to slip some and wear itself into the bell.......If you try to go too hard too fast you will just overheat and melt the clutch.... The goal of the breakin is to match the radius of the clutchbell with the clutch shoes..when the shoes are new they don't fit the bell overly well and have a very small contact patch... the brak will wear the shoes down in a controlled manner untill they have a full contact patch.......... I found the Tekno shoes required a fair amount of breakin till they set in properly..initially they slipped very badly when I tried to get on the juice..but after a couple of breakin tanks the clutch was holding fast and providing killer performance.......
Thanks a lot. Now i know why my shoes went away too fast on NB48: lack of break-in and excessive amount of bearing oil into clutch bearings. Seems nitro offroad has more deeper learning curve than i expected.
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