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Old 05-03-2010
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Originally Posted by jasonwipf View Post
Ouch that pinion looks bad. an elite rc mount has the pinion out the other way and woulda fell off in a grub nut loosen, plus the extra bearing in the motor mount woulda absorbed alot of the stress you undoubtedly put on that front bearing. They can and will send you a rotor no problem but I would be concerned that front bearing is chewed up alot of its functional life with that sorta of trauma.
Not necessarily - I've often had pinions that way round, but they have always fallen off forwards. I guess it is just luck.

That's a good point to raise actually, you will probably need a new front bearing in there - the sideways load of the rotor bending would probably be enough to destroy it.
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