RC10B4.1 FT/WC
08-09-2012 | 09:21 AM
With my hubs. The right inside bearing falls out. On the left inside it snaps in and stays. Both outside bearing move freely up and own and in and out. I tried to reduce the in and out with shims, but I think the crush tube is preventing me from getting it all out. I am trying to use locktite to reduce the up and down. In any case, it is pretty horrible slop. I am still trying to fine someone with a drill press locally to try and drill and tap the hubs for the slop on the pin. But in no case is this fit very good. These hubs a poor quality. WC if your defense of the AE product is glue, drills and reworking of the hubs, then you sir are misguided. lol. Those hubs might be the worst thing AE ever made. I cant really think of anything worse. If someone like avid made replacement hubs that had better fit and grub screws they would sell a lot of them, lol.
Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe my bearings are a different size, but this problem has eluded me.
08-09-2012 | 09:25 AM
I am still waiting for avid to get more hexes in for that. Yes, I am using the CVA's . I tried swapping around my bearings and was the same. My bearing fall out with no help. I should make a video, lol. That seems the be the popular thing now because it very useful. I currently use 3 axle shims on each side with the spacer and pin.
08-09-2012 | 09:27 AM
I guess I don't get it... do you use AE CVAs? I do, and there's no play on either side.. Yes, if I disassemble the hexes and remove the CVA, the bearings will, with a gentle tap, both fall out. But once it's all put together, nothing. On the inside, the CVA boot has a thin washer between it and the inside bearing, there's a crush tube between the bearings, and on the outside, I use another thin shim outside the bearing, that the hex butts up against. There is no play.
Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe my bearings are a different size, but this problem has eluded me.
Maybe I'm lucky, or maybe my bearings are a different size, but this problem has eluded me.
08-09-2012 | 09:31 AM
08-09-2012 | 09:44 AM
08-09-2012 | 09:44 AM
I am still waiting for avid to get more hexes in for that. Yes, I am using the CVA's . I tried swapping around my bearings and was the same. My bearing fall out with no help. I should make a video, lol. That seems the be the popular thing now because it very useful. I currently use 3 axle shims on each side with the spacer and pin.
Something is quite wrong. I wouldn't have near enough room for all those shims.
08-09-2012 | 09:57 AM
Well, I'm apologize if that offended you. I was just trying to answer your question and say that for the average you might not notice a difference, and that "you" was an indirect you. I wasn't trying to say YOU were a 'mere mortal'.
If you can feel the difference between standard plastic and graphite arms then congratulations because you are in the upper percentile of people that can.
In all the testing that I have done going back and forth between arms, I was not able to conclusively show with lap times that one was better than the other, and I would paypal some $10 if they could show me evidence with laptimes running back and forth throughout the course of a day that one was better than the other.
If you can feel the difference between standard plastic and graphite arms then congratulations because you are in the upper percentile of people that can.
In all the testing that I have done going back and forth between arms, I was not able to conclusively show with lap times that one was better than the other, and I would paypal some $10 if they could show me evidence with laptimes running back and forth throughout the course of a day that one was better than the other.
08-09-2012 | 10:05 AM
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lol, I never even hit the brakes. she was turn marshaling practice and went to come over someone car and I ran her little butt over. lol. So Mod Nats is this weekend? Where is it being held at? Also, which avid bearing do you use? I was thinking metal shields on the non exposed diff bearings, The teflon one side and metal inside for the outdrives. And for the wheels? rubber outside and metal inside? I am looking to order some avid bearings and was looking for input.
08-09-2012 | 10:21 AM
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Well, I'm apologize if that offended you. I was just trying to answer your question and say that for the average you might not notice a difference, and that "you" was an indirect you. I wasn't trying to say YOU were a 'mere mortal'.
If you can feel the difference between standard plastic and graphite arms then congratulations because you are in the upper percentile of people that can.
In all the testing that I have done going back and forth between arms, I was not able to conclusively show with lap times that one was better than the other, and I would paypal some $10 if they could show me evidence with laptimes running back and forth throughout the course of a day that one was better than the other.
If you can feel the difference between standard plastic and graphite arms then congratulations because you are in the upper percentile of people that can.
In all the testing that I have done going back and forth between arms, I was not able to conclusively show with lap times that one was better than the other, and I would paypal some $10 if they could show me evidence with laptimes running back and forth throughout the course of a day that one was better than the other.
08-09-2012 | 10:22 AM
