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Originally Posted by Oblarg
You can do that, but then they come all the way out of the bearing blocks (and ostensibly any sprockets you have on the other side are then loose, too).
Not saying you should change your design; it's a minor concern. It's just that I've spent a lot of time servicing drives, and little details like this are worth thinking about, if nothing else.
Cool, that certainly would be harder to break.
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Correct, Service of drives are definitely a pain. We got to the point this year where we could have our entire drive train dismantled (gearboxes off, axles off, bearing blocks out, belts off, sprockets off, motors unplugged) and back together again in less than the time it takes for us to be back to the field for our next elimination match, so about 12 or so minutes. We train our pit crew well and teach them that there are definitely trade-offs to running the type of setups we run. We do however consider all options prior to final design.