which bosch model do u prefer?

[computhief263]

Ok, this thought came to me this morning after thinking about stuff that happened at Bash yesterday.

After some thinking and about 16 rebuilds of the 03 Bosch gearbox, i realized that a combo between the way the mounts FIRST gave us were designed and the way the gearbox is built ,makes the whole assembly WAY to susceptable to breaking apart.
Like the 02 Bosch, the 03 Bosch had a gearbox was made up of 2 sections. Unlike the 02 Bosch, the gearbox was only held together by 3 little locking plastic tabs...w/ slight force in the wrong direction the front half of the gearbox pops off sending gears flying.
The 2 models of Bosch have the negative and positive aspects such as

02 Bosch
+gearbox was held together better
- the gearbox was a pain in the but to reassemble
+ gearbox rarely locked up

03 Bosch
-gearbox fell apart WAY WAY to easily
+the gear box was fairly simple to reassemble, if u knew where the gears went
- the gearbox locked frequently


Keep in mind that I'm just speaking from my experience w/ both Bosch motors......but given that experience i greatly prefer the 2002 Bosch.

So now that Ive stated my thoughts i was wondering what the rest of u thought bout the 2 different models of Bosch gearbox/motor.