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Originally Posted by skyaflake

Great for low traction situations. Yokomo Europe's quality is great, as usual.

I'll pick one of these up this week as MB have them due in.

Originally Posted by skyaflake

I'm currently (slowly) rebuilding the B-Max2 with a hard gearbox (i've ran the stock gearbox since it came out, never had problems)

I just did mine. Replaced topshaft and bearings as well as going back to new plastic idlers. I found that the topshaft was wearing away the first idler, which was leaving aluminium filings inside the gearbox. The first ali idler was worn with angled teeth, as if contact with the topshaft was not square. Hopefully the new bearings and hard case will sort this out? The second ali idler, the one that drives the diff was not worn at all. I caught it all before a failure anyway.
I wonder if its best to run steel topshaft, plastic idler, ali idler then to diff?

Originally Posted by skyaflake

and with a harder ackermann plate (made out of carbon) which i'm going to test. I had to shim the steering posts to reduce the slop. Feels smooth again.

Have you got a photo of this please?

Originally Posted by skyaflake

The only thing i'm currently thinking about is to switch to a 6.5 motor for outdoor. I prefer a little bit of overpower, so probably for me it's fine. The only downside is the battery drain. So I will need to test if I can drive about 9-10 minutes (just to be sure) with a shorty in the car. Let's hope so.

You should easily get that run time. I've had 20mins out of mine with shorty and 7.5 outside.