MC6 Stripped Gears - Part 2 - Plus how to shim the axles

So it turns out that I was wrong in the first video, the gears are damaged, I talk through what I believe happened. I also go through how I shimmed the axles and have managed taken out the huge amount of play in the standard setup.

Hope this information proves useful to you!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:14 - What happened & I show you the damage
01:45 - How to stop play in small gear in the axle
05:08 - How to stop sideways play in the axle

Thanks for watching, thanks for your support.

Shims for axles:

[RCplamodel]

That's a great video! Thank you for sharing good information!!~~~ 👍👍👍

[BasBoyRC]

That bearing mod does seem to do the job, the play you have now is perfect and will be interesting to how this lasts. That old gear was well knackered.

[SFDFLATH]

Great bench video. You are getting good at these type of videos. I'm getting, as you would say, "jelly" of you.
All kidding aside, this was really good info. I am going to start paying more attention to the fit and use of shims that is for sure.
Thanks
Steve

[rccrawlersmid-wales]

Interesting stuff, you've got those well figured out now. The pinion must have been meshing in too hard and wearing - missing shims on the outside would only allow inward travel. I had a different problem (pinion twisting away from the ring gear thanks to knackered bearings) and the wear pattern did look a bit different. I didn't get those splayed out bits at the bottom of each tooth, and the teeth themselves were smeared over into hooks. At least now I've seen this I might be able to diagnose what's wrong next time! 👍