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Thirdgen89GTA
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01.09.2012, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by brian015 View Post
The only time I had trouble with a pinion coming off like that was when my motor mount was misaligned, so the pinion was meshing at a slight angle with the spur. This produced a force on the pinion that pushed it outward toward the end of the motor shaft and it came off regularly, until I fixed the misalignment.
I'll have to look at that. It didn't look crooked, but i also didn't consider the possibility that it could be crooked. I figured when the motor was tightened down it would flatten itself out as long as something wasn't between the motor and the mount.


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