Vekta 5 front dog bone clearance issues

[Rep732]

I would think this is across the board with kraken. So my issue is the drive shaft is extremely close to the pull start and it chewed a little into the housing. I have the cy pull start so I had to shave off a ridge off the edge to have a flat surface to put the velcro for the outerwears. So after installation I noticed that the front dogbone is literally resting on the outerwears. So for the guys that have vektas that don't have big bores where do you guys stand with front dog bone clearance?

 

[Seandonato73]

I'll let you know, as soon as I have an engine in mine.

 

[Rep732]

I never noticed it sean. I saw it was close and when I shaved the housing down I noticed a small half circle in the housing. This really is an unacceptable issue. I base where the engine wants to sit by tightening the 3 bolts on the trans so it sits flush then tighten the 2 screws on the chassis.. if I go toward the chassis brace it will rub and clearly its too close to the engine at this point to move it in that direction

 

[Seandonato73]

Hmm, I have all zen stuff coming for mine, I'll have to see how it sits. On a good note, I had time to clean up my work bench so hoping to get back on the vekta again.

 

[Rep732]

Its such a fine line between rubbing the center brace or the engine...

 

[Seandonato73]

Yeah the tr brace I got has a cut out for the center shaft, and it's still close. Will check out the engine fitment here soon.

 

[spents]

i'll report back in my build thread or here if i have any issues when the zelda/spovan engine goes in mine rep

 

[KevTrem]

Rep on yours you can see where the shaft has been polished (oo-er) by the outerwear. Does look tight no matter what you do there, suppose a polished shaft is better that a rubbed centre brace.

 

[Rep732]

@KevTrem thats pre outer wears. I did check to see how much pressure was on the outer wears and it isn't much. I just worry about heat building up and melting the outer wears really

 

[Mick Boomer]

Mine barely rubs on the outerwears as well. Im not concerned about it at all.

 

[niz55]

Mine did the same thing on my esp and stock motor.

On the rcmax 65 plenty of clearance.

 

[siblues]

Mine didn't rb at all thats weird but I also had the vertigo brace and no outerwear.

 

[Seandonato73]

I just bolted in the starter and fan cover from my old g320 out of the dbxl, it rubs but not by much, I'll just do the mesh mod to the starter and skip the outterwears.
There is enough room in the holes to move it around a good bit, but I doubt everything would line up right.
My center shaft doesn't hit the brace anywhere.

 

[Mick Boomer]

Drive Shaft touches mine. If I took the outerwears off there would probably be 3-4mm of clearance.

 

[Rep732]

Same here mick... I ran mine yesterday and from I can see it didn't burn into the outerwears

 

[niz55]

Nothing ever happened to mine when I was running it with the esp and the stock motor. Well I really didn't run the car hard as I only did one tank on those engines. But i don't think is going to cause a problem .

 

[DougStar]

What you can try is just remove 5mm of the adhesive tape right where the drive is this will give you a touch of clearance