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jorluivil 02-05-2013 07:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Drake (Post 146734)
No...

Mirage drives are actually incredibly simple. In order to service them you only need two open ended wrenches and a alan wrench.

Paper towels, q-tips, soapy water, and grease

Unless your cables are stretched to the point of the lock nuts being bottomed out, or your main axel has grooves from friction; there is nothing else you would need to change.

Sounds good! I have some side to side wiggle on my drives, I need to change my drums before they start looking like Mr Jones' drive.

Drake 02-05-2013 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jorluivil (Post 146755)
Sounds good! I have some side to side wiggle on my drives, I need to change my drums before they start looking like Mr Jones' drive.

Before you change your drums follow Steveooo's post here. I'm going to do a much more detailed one next time I do my drives.

I take all 6 nuts off so the chain will stay in the same place on the sprocket but to each their own.

The side to side slop will be mostly come from a loose idler cable (the one without the chain) give it a few turns on each side equally and as long as you're not bottomed out, it will tighten them up.

Also, when you pull the drums off and clean off your main axel, the regreasing of it will add more of a buffer between the drum hole and the axel so it won't wiggle as much. Be as generous as you can with the grease, the more you have the more difficult it is for sand to penetrate it's way into the space between the two.

Since the plastic is softer than the metal, the sand will "stick" or "embed" in the drums plastic. People are always surprised when the axel wears more than the drum itself but it's because the axel is rubbing on the sand and the sand remains in place on the drum.

Make sense?

RobFish 02-06-2013 06:43 AM

You can always have your mechanic spin their magic wrenches for you too.
Had mine done recently, and the difference is truly amazing.
No clicking or noise, no slop or wiggle, just beautiful Mirage motivation.
Props to my mechanic.

Dannowar 02-06-2013 07:11 AM

TRUST your mechanic

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