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as for the Ultramaxxed gear set....gen I's used a teflon hard anadization on them....but once Dan (aka Microwebtech) found out that it didn't provide the protection he wanted and that it just raised up the price hhe went with the plain aluminum....then came the brass idlers....hence Gen II's.....but after I was able to damage a set of gen II's....basiscly the gears started to ramp up were the pins from the shift dog was making contact with the 1st/2nd gears.....so then after I sent my original gen II's into dan and he replaced the gears for me...the gen III design was born and the shift dog pins are slighlty offset more to engage the gears more fully and then he inserted the steel pins into the gears so then you would have the steel to steel contact.......I have yet to switch to my set of gen III's yet....but the RC4WD site gears have a flaw.....the gears are michined too thin between the bearing carrier and the gear itself....of which i foresee the gears failing in the same retrospect as Dans gen II's did with the pin contact.....if this was a way for them to cut corners and reduce weight...then i don't think it was too smart on their part.