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Paulm1187

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I've had my EB4 S3 for about 2 months now from new, and the clutch is the first thing thats decided to break on it. And its not just a small break, its completely worn down and then shattered. I was just wondering if anyone could shed any light on why this has happened or caused it, and also if anything could be done to prevent it when I get my new clutch bell. Thanks

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It's all metal gearing so yeah, it's a thunder tiger eb4 s3
 
How would I change that? Like to make sure it won't happen to my new clutch bell
 
Have you ever took a motor off and then put it back on b4?

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but anyways when you mesh the two gears you put your motor on and loosen the mount bolts just enough to move the motor a little at a time. push the bell up against the spur and make sure its straight. turn your spur by hand it shouldnt be smooth at this point. Move the motor just a tad out and spin the spur if its smooth tighten it down and then spin the spur again. sometimes it will be to tight again so you must loosen and move just a tad away from spur again. You want the gears to be as close as possible to bottoming out with each other.
 
So the gears want to be loose enough to move freely and smoothly but close enough to not slip? The engine is out at the minute now so I'll do that when I get a new bell. Could anything like a stone or something jamming the gears and making it grind of made it happen.
 
I always use the paper method to check mesh, and once you learn what a proper mesh sounds like then you can go by that. to check if its meshes properly take a slip of paper and run it in between the clutch and spur and then thread it out.

a good mesh will be a bit tighter than what is shown in the pic below

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You dont want any rips or extremely sharp angles. the pic above is too loose in my opinion. you shold be able to see a small space from where if fully meshed all you would see is teeth against teeth, also if you hold the clutchbell you can jiggle the spur a bit back and forth.

As far as the sound it makes, when its tight you will hear a louder chatter, when done right you still hear metal on metal, just not as loud. I use the paper , the space I can see and the sound all to help me achieve a proper mesh.

As far as the slipper goes most trucks and etc are different and I have never ran what you own. but generally for off road bashing you tighten all the way down then back off anywhere from 1/2 to 2 turns, and then adjust from there. If you are going to set your slipper it is better to err on it being too loose than too tight. as it being too tight will ruin drive train components.

Mind you I am no professional, this is just what I've picked up while learning over the last few years.

The last consideration is if your clutchbell isnt shimmed properly which will cause it to move forward and backwards on the drive shaft. make sure the is little to no movement of the bell on the shaft, and if there is add shims. the most important thing is to make sure it always spins freely with no resistance.
 
That deff could have happened to if you where running in some rocks or on a surface with rocks scattered. From my experience paper trick usually gets the mesh to tight unless you use some thicker paper. meshing is pretty straight forward if you can see the teeth the best way to do it is off sight and feel
 
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