independant 4 wheel drive

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06-04-2004, 16:46

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Re: independant 4 wheel drive

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Originally Posted by Vu2000

We have since tried 2 wheel drive and it works better than before... next year we'll go back two 4 wheel drive but maybe this time with a double sprocket or 4 motors?

As far as I can tell, the best solutions to your problem are to either use a double sprocket on the output shaft of your gearbox, as you said, or to snake the chain around the output shaft using idle sprockets. In 2001, team 254 did this. The picture should be nicely indicative of what I mean.

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