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Old 03-25-2010, 09:05 AM
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Francis M.
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Originally Posted by stefan
I went through 2 MTX4 and 3 MTX4-R since the car was released and NEVER had a gear stripping issue.
None of my fellow racers that run or ran MTX4's ever had that problem.

I once saw a guy in the north who thought he had a stripping issue.
Turned out, that he matched his gears only on first gear.

After correct adjustment the problem was gone.

This is strange!
I also never had a stripping problem except for builder error. This past weekend I stripped two gears thinking I meshed everything correctly. It turned out that I lost 1 screw on top of the engine mount and the 1 screw remaining on the front engine mount was loose. I replaced the missing screw, tightened all screws and did not have a problem the rest of the weekend...
Prior to stripping the gears this weekend. I've raced using the same spur gears through 2 races which had 45 min mains each...
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