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Originally Posted by caneye
kayce - i don't dispute that. in fact, totally agree that it is a rare thing to happen.
just wanted to highlight the fact that when doing routine maintenance and checks of the car, there are some parts that are more important than others and this particular one should be at the very top of the list.
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Originally Posted by Origineelreclamebord
It might be a rare happening, but if you don't use something besides threadlock and grub screws the pin might in the end still come out - with disastrous results.
Regular maintenance and checks do help, but on my TRF201 I had these pins come out halfway in the first 5 minutes of a trackday I went to recently. If it happened on your DEX410 might be enough to start eating into the case of your battery?  In the case of my TRF201 it just means I had to pull over or I'd lose the pin - which is not widely available.
To solve it, I fitted some heatshrink around it and I didn't have the problem the rest of the day. It seems like quite a cheap solution to a problem that can grow to massive proportions in the wrong circumstances. |
I guess that's my point, but at the same time pins have been working their way past grub screws since the first cvds were invented 20 years ago - and the fix was rather simple back them (combination - threadlock, flatspot on drivepin, heatshrink over cvd cup), so it's not a new idea - and yet it's a mystery to me that people are still having the same old problem.
Sometimes I feel as if I'm the only one on the planet that's never had one work loose (knock on wood
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To me, it's about like driving a 1:1 automobile and being baffled each time it runs out of petrol. 