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Originally Posted by AlexH
the omfgbb gearboxes are crap. the planet gears are slightly too big and grind on the ring gear. the 64:1's have way too much resistance in them because of this. a guy i know was losing about 250w in his boxes with no load on them.
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Did he break them in first? If you grease them, run them unloaded for a while, degrease them (the metal shavings suspended in the grease are what you are really trying to get rid of, but it's not worth the hassle), regrease them, and reassemble them and they should run a lot more efficiently.