pic: Skunkswerve Module Cross Section

[Dillon Carey]

Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin

I envy how easy it must be to get your hands inside the module for maintenance.

we had the same problem with our first swerve drives, one somewhat simple thing you can do is to move the chain and sprockets connecting the wheel axle to the upper axle to the outside of the module. As long as this doesn't cause your module to become wider then the diameter of the wheel it shouldn't hit anything. this makes tensioning and replacement of this chain much easier, also it opens up more room on the inside of the module.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...=swerve+module

This is our teams last swerve design, one other thing we did as far as maintenance was use hex axles and snap rings to make everything very easy to change. Our '08 bot,which used these modules,never broke in competition but it was way better than '07 when we had to get 4 people and sit for an hour to get the wheels out and replace the tread, now it only takes 1 person 30 minutes or less to replace all 4 wheels.