Play in the topshaft
 

I've had my buggy for about for about a week now, and noticed today the transmission had become noisy, when I checked the pinion mesh I noticed the shaft the spur is on has enough play in it for the pinion mesh to never be right.

I checked on my brothers and his is not like this.

I swear it was quiet the day before, All I can think of is set the slipper last night (holding the rear wheels and giving it throttle till the front wheels lift about 30 degree)

any ideas?

do you have bearings in the car? if not fit some quick :thumbsup:

yeah it's a tc02, comes with sealed bearings. Probably should have mentioned that. I just pulled the gearbox down and everything seems new still, the play is in the top shaft bearings. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, swapped the bearings around, will see how it sounds when I get it back together.

Seems I've managed to bend a CVD, thats probably not helping my cause.

wow that was some skills i have never bent one of them

I also have that problem. The spur has the hole too big and it moves on the shaft. And mine isn't even perfectly right. So I also couldn't set it right.

Im not sure that the hole in the spur is bad on mine, the whole slipper set up seems to sit a bit crooked once tightened

Think I'll have to play around with some shims.

As far as the cvd goes, I have no idea how that happened, and how did it happen without breaking something else. :confused:

well nicefrog came and pointed out I'd forgot to put the plastic shims in the rear hubs, we had a bit of a race and they both went pretty well in the mud

so are you saying that your spur gear is running out of true, or the layshaft slides in and out (endfloat)?

the spur has that play. The shaft is ok

When I had mine, it was the same, I had contemplated converting the car to run on a B4 slipper and spur gear.

That's exactly what I'm planning to do

You can convert it with the kyosho slipper too.