Originally Posted by
Thunderbunny
I'm using 50K. I replaced the composite gears because the slot on the back side of the big gear stripped on my second practice run. My home track has a lot of 180* turns (host track of last year's IFMAR Worlds), which works the diffs pretty hard. The car handles amazingly well when the diff holds up. I need to get this problem fixed. I've gone through three diffs so far. One with composites, two with NT1 gears.
I'm still surprised by this, in the end I'd say the real solution is to wait for Mugen or another company to release steel gears made for the 5, though other companies have been releasing plastic gears for their own cars and they seem to be doing ok.
Short term solution could be to up your gear oil (thicker) to lessen the loading on the gears, even though that may not be ideal for your track.
Oh and for those still being bothered by bert, do what I did and add him to the ignore list, though really that would work better if people would stop quoting him.
