pic: 2012 FRC971 Transmission Actual

[James Kuszmaul]

Originally Posted by M. Mellott

Was it easy to line up the gears and obtain/maintain the proper spacing when you first assembled the drivetrain and installed the transmission(just bolt it up and done), or did you have to make several tweeks to get the gears to line up just right?

As I recall, assembling the transmissions went well, but when we mounted it, there were a couple things which caused small problems:

• For some reason, one of the holes for mounting the transmission was the wrong size (too small), so it had to be drilled out by hand. It works now, but there was a flaw in the design at some point.
• The mounting bolts are tricky to access, with the shooter conveyor and all the electronics. The ideal place for getting an allen wrench to unscrew the bolts happens to be by poking the allen through the belly pan, and unscrewing a couple of the bolts. This is something we could try and improve on.

Overall, it went reasonably well, and come competition, we were able to switch transmissions relatively easily.