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Originally Posted by pilleya

Have you had any issues with the carrier plates of the gearbox. I suppose part of the reasoning for having the sprocket reduction after the planetary reduction stage was to reduce the torque on the gearbox?

Also how often do you grease the gearboxes?

we have a special technique for the carrier plates... we punch the gear pins so the expand. they last longer that way. the sprocket reduction after the gearbox does reduce the torque, but the main idea behind it was that it was easier to install that way.

We greased the gearboxes once when we built it, and one more time when we changed the ratios at Montreal. We don't plan on greasing them again