stripping spur gears constantly

[adamskii]

ok dunno what happened but ma savage X has devloped a taste for spur gears, stripped like 5 in a week. I know i drive pretty hard, always bashing to the limits, but this is only started to happen. I have a good mesh to the clutch bell, the slipper clutch is at factory , (1/2 turn out) i usually run slipper tight, just put a new diff in front after first few spurs went as i thought the spider needed shims, rest of car seems normal, and the motor is square to the spur gear. one minuite be screaming , the next its standing still and the gears stripped. one thing i did kinda think i heard was car not hitting second gear as early as always and maybe it was kicking in at too high a rev, but that was alot of assumption and not observed consistantly. I am worried about a steel spur gear.. if there is a problem i wanna just fix $6 plastic spurs not $100 tranny or $200 engines.

the stripped gears show obvious signs of slipping when in the slipper clutch, as the pads are shining.

any help appreciated,.

adamskii

 

[Chunky Monkey]

pull your motor out, use some fresh threadlocker and just check the mesh on every tank...Weird though, I've had my spurs last me at least 3-6 months.

 

[vash1774]

check the side plates and the motor plate, one of my friends had this problem and it was from him tweaking the side plate just enought.

 

[RangerRock]

Make sure the motor mounts are tight and the plate..mine was loose and it stripped mine.