Thread: RS775 Gearboxes
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Re: RS775 Gearboxes

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Originally Posted by sanddrag View Post
696 put in an order for some P60s on Wednesday night. We'll see when they arrive.

Does anyone know what the first part to fail would be in the 4-stage P60? Is it worth upgrading to the steel ring gear, or would something else go first? I'm wondering if the steel ring gear would keep it alive a little beyond 35 ft-lbs.

I don't yet have any first-hand experience with these gearboxes.
In 2008 a 256:1 BB Gearbox failed on us (which I believe was the 2nd generation, the P60 is the third). We unknowingly ran it for a couple of seconds after it failed, but when we took it apart we had stripped almost all of the ring gear teeth on the final stage.
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