hpi savage pinion gear touching just half of spur gear?

[fstnd]

Hello, the easiest way to explain will probably be with a picture:

The pinion gear is not touching the whole spur gear. I can't move the engine forward, only sideways. Is there maybe a other way to make the pinion gear fully touch the spur gear?

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Shim the clutch bell out. Quickest and easiest way.

 

[NCNitro]

That clutch bell needs to be shimmed, it looks like it's right up against the flywheel.

 

[NCNitro]

Looking at it closely it also appears your engine mounting is off, it looks twisted to the left. That will eat that spur quick! Check your engine mounting screws, see if you can realign it.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Ah, good catch NC, I didn't even notice that, but yep, looks a bit cockeyed to me as well.

 

[NCNitro]

Ah, good catch NC, I didn't even notice that, but yep, looks a bit cockeyed to me as well.

That throttle return spring may to be in the way too.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

That throttle return spring may to be in the way too.

And it may be the picture angle, but is the brake arm close to the spur as well (or something looks close at the top of the spur.)

 

[NCNitro]

And it may be the picture angle, but is the brake arm close to the spur as well (or something looks close at the top of the spur.)

I think you're right. The more I look at this pic, the more wonky things look. I see missing screws for the transmission case, and it looks like the chassis may be tweaked.

Btw, here's how my linkage is set up.

And my return spring...

 

[alfredwong2003]

Maybe missing a collar behind the flywheel. Or need to shim behind the flywheel.

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Well hells bells! I just realized I lost my throttle return spring! Geez, dodged a bullet here!

 

[fstnd]

And it may be the picture angle, but is the brake arm close to the spur as well (or something looks close at the top of the spur.)

Lol sorry but it is the angle. The spur ends at the brake arm. The blurry thing with the same colour as the spur after the brake arm is just one of my "upgrades"

 

[gandalfnz]

Hi

So what did you end up doing with this?
Shim the clutch bell or shim the spur gear?
From you first photo ,the clutch bell seems to be shimmed enough, as too much shim/spacing between clutch bell and flywheel will make clutch shoes not wear evenly.

I have the same problem on one of my savages, interested to hear what you did.

Thanks

 

[fstnd]

Hi

So what did you end up doing with this?
Shim the clutch bell or shim the spur gear?
From you first photo ,the clutch bell seems to be shimmed enough, as too much shim/spacing between clutch bell and flywheel will make clutch shoes not wear evenly.

I have the same problem on one of my savages, interested to hear what you did.

Thanks

Sadly i've changed my whole flywheel setup since this post so i can't make no photo's anymore. Anyway i do remember that i just shimmed the clutch bell and everything worked fine. At the beginning i thought the same because i could see like 0.7mm of the clutch shoes to the clutch bell, but everything turned out to be perfect

 

[gandalfnz]

Sadly i've changed my whole flywheel setup since this post so i can't make no photo's anymore. Anyway i do remember that i just shimmed the clutch bell and everything worked fine. At the beginning i thought the same because i could see like 0.7mm of the clutch shoes to the clutch bell, but everything turned out to be perfect

I have fixed this yesterday, by shimming behind the flywheel and removing a shim washer at the front.
Worked really good.

 

[fernando mateus]

Hello, the easiest way to explain will probably be with a picture:View attachment 158175
The pinion gear is not touching the whole spur gear. I can't move the engine forward, only sideways. Is there maybe a other way to make the pinion gear fully touch the spur gear?

That's pretty easy take the spur gear out and at a spacer behind it I do it all the time with my kids

 

[fstnd]

That's pretty easy take the spur gear out and at a spacer behind it I do it all the time with my kids

Everything has a first time looking back i also think it should've been a piece of cake