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Re: Kit Chassis + Mecanum = Flex

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post
Not enough information to make this assessment.

Yes, the pods could have contributed to the chains popping off, but thats not proof. Many teams (mine included, without tensioners) ran chains to the wheel pods without a chain ever popping off.

Can you give us more info about your chain routing/tensioning? maybe even a picture?
We ran a 6wd with chan runnning from the gearbox to the back wheel (we got these to be tight enough and it might have fallen off once). From the back wheel to the middle wheel was the problem, even with the AM tensioner on it, it consistnetly fell off and we could never solve it). From the middle, the chain went to the front wheel, which was very tight and we never had a problem.

Unfortunatly, I do not have a good picture. The one I attached is the best I could find. The lower set of wheels shows the gearbox through the middle wheel. The upper set shows the front wheels, which were not a problem.
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