MT Gear ratio's? Can you help?

[voo2doo]

Hiya fellas,took the MT and Beetle out again the other day and mashed the pinion on the MT:blush: Now,what I need to know is that if I use a 18T steel instead of the original 16T plastic how do I mesh the gears up? If the pinion is bigger that means do I have to lower the spur gear down to compensate mesh ?
And if so what to?
Can I still use the standard 48T spur plus the 18T pinion? Is there a way like in meshing 10th scale cars gears to pull the engine back to syncronise the gears?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
J.

 

[Ducky]

As you can't change the engine meshing between the spur and pinion you're forced to run either 48/16 or 46/18 The engine can only be pulled back to mesh the lay shaft and differential gears.

 

[Trip]

If you change the pinion to lets say an 18 tooth you will have to drop to a 46 gear spur. Like the Duckster said there is no adjustment... Check out his thread...

https://www.largescaleforums.com/showthread.php?t=4351

By the 8th post we start talking about gear ratios

Trip..

 

[dc2 man]

you can also check out the pinions you can use and ratios on my thread( fg two speeds/pinions/gearratios)this may help some too.......

 

[voo2doo]

Excellent fellas,thanks.
J.