Thread: Adjustable Way of Dropping the Center Wheel
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Re: Adjustable Way of Dropping the Center Wheel
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Originally Posted by rc_cola1323 View Post
The reason for this is that we dropped our wheel last year at 1/8", but this year it needed more but we were stuck with an 1/8 because of the way we did it. So in postseason i tried this and we lowered it to 3/16" and the frame turned like a champ.
Cool. One thing to be careful of when testing a chassis during the build season is to have proper weight and surface (i.e. carpet). We have built many chassis that seemed crazy manueverable on concrete, and then added mechanisms and put it on carpet and voila, it turned like a 10 ton dump truck.

You can also change the "drop" by lifting the front or rear wheels. These are often easier as this will only effect tension on the chain loop to them as changing middle wheel drop often includes messing with multiple chain loop tensions.