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Old 14-09-2014
Richard Lowe Richard Lowe is offline
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Originally Posted by Rossi_14 View Post
Hello,

i had the chance to drive my car today. i have to say the car is really reliable. i was on a 1/5th scale astroturf track with the jumps and bumps everybody expects from such a track. the car handled everything fine. had a few really bad crashes and from memory i would have repaired my old bj4 today a lot. the only thing that failed (after a hard landing) was the spur gear. new parts are ordered and i am looking forward to test the car indoors next friday.
Was the pinion in line with the spur, it looks like it was only running on half the spur?

Make sure the little grub screw in the motor clamp is sitting slightly proud, that way it digs into the motor cam slightly when you tighten the clamp down and definitely won't move
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