Sigh... I made some terrible mistakes and learnt a very valuable lesson with my lazer.
After a tired some day of work, I got home to break in my new ball diffs. Tightening the slipper to do so, the ball diffs are now nice and smooth. After the diffs, I had to set my slipper again. Being tired and all, somehow I tried to set up the slipper as a 2wd. (holding the rear tires and hit throttle to get the front wheels to jump around 3 inches). As you know, this did not end well, the front didn't jump, so I throttle some more. After 2 tries, both front and rear belts snapped. In shock of realizing what I have done, I quickly disassemble the lazer and found out that the pulleys and diffs are all okay. That was a close one.
Amazingly, the teeth on the blue belts that snapped have no wear on them. I guess under a lot of torque, something have got to give. Luckily it's the belt.
So the lesson is, don't try to set up your car when you are dead tired. For some reason, the most obvious things will go unnoticed.
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