Mechanical Brakes

[jhautz]

Looks good shark. That is the solution I was trying to describe a couple posts ago.

Last night I sketched up a spacer plate for the front of a motor that would allow for the brake disk clearance and just sent it to Mike to see if he could machine one up for me. It should allow the use of an almost full range of pinion gears. At least down to 12T by my calculations. It should be able to bolt up to just about any motor using a normal bolt pattern and with any of the RCM style motor moounts allow clearance for brake disks. Like you said though shark, it will put the pinion farther out on the shaft, but I have been running a really long Tekno clutch assembly in one of my buggies which effectivly almost doubles the shaft length where the pinion gear is and havent had any issues so I would think this should be fine too.

Heres the sketch of what I'm thinking.