09-09-2008
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: hull,east yorkshire
Posts: 370
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DMS Racing
If you leave a ZX5 shimmed as "per book" with a 4.5 motor you will experience problems with gear stripping. You would normally add a thin shim (or two) to make the mesh slightly tight, in order so that it beds in and runs smooth and hassle free. Every ZX5 that has run as per book in our area has stripped gears, every one that has been "shimmed" carefully has not.
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