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09-07-2010, 02:32 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Nor Cal
Posts: 2,213
|  Grease pinion gear?
Should you grease the pinion gear and the idler gear that it meshes with? Both manual and axial's step by step seem to show no grease. Grease or no grease? |
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09-07-2010, 02:46 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2008 Location: Clarkston
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Set the gear-mesh right without grease. --> you should be able to run a piece of newspaper between the pinion and the next gear without having the paper ripping into pieces. It should just be deformed according to the gears teeth. Once you´ve done that, you can add some grease. Use steel pinions, they last longer than the aluminum ones supplied with the kit. |
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09-07-2010, 04:12 AM
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| Rock Crawler  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Germany
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I personally would only recommend ceramic-grease. This is used also on Tamiya transmissions with plastic gears and should not do any harm to the plastic (like lithium based grease could do). P |
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09-07-2010, 09:38 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In the Dark Edges of your Mind
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Yes. I already toasted a kit pinion.
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