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Originally posted by sanddrag
I've seen so much complaining of problems and beakage - most of which I believe is due to improper installation or modification.
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True, it is very possible to damage the gearbox through inproper installation, but I doubt our team did that. We used the provided plastic mount brackets and coupler. It's pretty hard to install it the wrong way. Plus we had the shifter secured very well into low gear. But the way we broke it isn't explained by this. We opened up the broken ones and found the gears to be completly stripped out. This can only be caused by a pre-existing weakness in the gearbox. It seems that you can only put so much power for so long into it before it starts to rip itself apart.
Other than that, the motor is great. I tend to like it without its gearbox though.