Savage XL-E

[Janezki]

Originally Posted by wayneb

Janezki, do you have a pic of how you mounted the motor mount to the engine plate of your savage?

Here you go:



I had the original 52t spur on place when doing this.
First I measured the hole pattern of the Tekno mount (which is 32mm center to center btw.) and attached the motor with 15t pinion to it.
Then I placed the mount over the plate so that the pinion touched the spur and marked (scratched) the outlines of the mount to plate. I noticed that I could probably use only two screws for mounting because the plate has openings at the center and a little "notch" at the front (marked with yellow circle at pic) which might make the drilling a bit difficult, plus the center rear driveshaft was in the way (I was lazy and didn't remove the plate from the car...)
Then I made marks for the two 4mm holes to be drilled to 32mm distance of each other. I drilled second holes towards the center of the car, just next to previous ones and used dremel to grind the gap open - now I can move the mount to mesh the gears with different pinions.

Two screws with thread locker seem to hold the mount on it's place well enough.


I got the tranny fixed with the spare gears, loosened the slipper a bit and went for a little drive yesterday.
Managed to drive a full pair of packs with no problems. With second pair I was jumping from a small snow bank, had a bad landing and heard a loud cracking sound and...



...broke both upper & lower suspension arms.