drive rubbing

Originally Posted by jorluivil

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?