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wolfie

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17th Aug, 2005 at 10:05:36pm

has anyone actually broken a set of standard dropgears?

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17th Aug, 2005 at 10:14:21pm

Never the gears, but lunched enough bearings and thrusts with them...

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stowmaket suffolk

18th Aug, 2005 at 08:39:32am

and shagged plenty of casings in the process.

unless its bog standard fit sc drops

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Joe C

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Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex

18th Aug, 2005 at 08:57:03am

yep, teeth started coming off a pre A plus idler in a 1380 I had, dunno why! the bearings werefine and the motor could only have been putting out about 80-90BHP!

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Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



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19th Aug, 2005 at 09:32:47pm

ive ruined 2 bearings/casings using std gears.

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21st Aug, 2005 at 02:14:42pm

Never had a problem with std A+ drop gears. It was always the gears in the input shaft for the gearbox that stripped first.

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21st Aug, 2005 at 04:41:15pm

no problems with the black racer (grey clutch)....

12 quater miles... (on slicks)

4 trackdays...

all after 65k miles as a road engine.

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