Brent1972Indy
Active Member
I am beginning to think that I don't have time for this hobby. I spend more time working on this thing than playing with it. I understand normal maintenance or repairing due to a wreck but this time it has more to do with bad luck.
After getting my new fhmt wheels and tires put on, I stripped both the pinion and spur gears after running it for 15 minutes or so. I saw a small rock lodged in the spur gear in the teeth that were left. Somehow it found its way there throught my gear cover. Maybe that is what caused it, no big deal. Luckily I had back up gears but I had to go and get new "C" clips because the ones on here were junk and would not spring back to hold the gear on. So after fixing that for an hour with a trip to the hardware store, I was back running again. This time it was for a whole 10 minutes until two screws backed out of the engine mounts and tore up my brake system. One screw is gone but the other only backed out until the brake pads stopped it from going any further. My brake pads/discs are toast and so is my gear support plate from where the pads were forced into the plate melting a huge gouge in it. So after removing the gas tank to loosen the ddm torque pipe so I could raise it out of the way and taking apart the whole driver side of the vehicle to get to the freaking problem, I realized that I was really tired of messing with it and that I pissed away most of my Saturday.
So my question(s)....Why the hell do these 2 screws back out on a fairly new vehicle? Has this happenned to anyone else? It's not like these screws are accessible to check now and then for tightness. I wonder if it is bad luck or maybe some lazy a$$ china man forgot to put thread lock on them? When do I get to run this thing for an hour or two, then put it up and go eat or mow grass,etc then get it back out later and run it for another hour or so without all these freakin' problems? China is stupid.
After getting my new fhmt wheels and tires put on, I stripped both the pinion and spur gears after running it for 15 minutes or so. I saw a small rock lodged in the spur gear in the teeth that were left. Somehow it found its way there throught my gear cover. Maybe that is what caused it, no big deal. Luckily I had back up gears but I had to go and get new "C" clips because the ones on here were junk and would not spring back to hold the gear on. So after fixing that for an hour with a trip to the hardware store, I was back running again. This time it was for a whole 10 minutes until two screws backed out of the engine mounts and tore up my brake system. One screw is gone but the other only backed out until the brake pads stopped it from going any further. My brake pads/discs are toast and so is my gear support plate from where the pads were forced into the plate melting a huge gouge in it. So after removing the gas tank to loosen the ddm torque pipe so I could raise it out of the way and taking apart the whole driver side of the vehicle to get to the freaking problem, I realized that I was really tired of messing with it and that I pissed away most of my Saturday.
So my question(s)....Why the hell do these 2 screws back out on a fairly new vehicle? Has this happenned to anyone else? It's not like these screws are accessible to check now and then for tightness. I wonder if it is bad luck or maybe some lazy a$$ china man forgot to put thread lock on them? When do I get to run this thing for an hour or two, then put it up and go eat or mow grass,etc then get it back out later and run it for another hour or so without all these freakin' problems? China is stupid.
