Joined Nov 2001
17K Posts | 774+
Ely, England
it seems you haven't been telling the truth you lot!
you promised me that the close ratio gearbox amounted to no more than dropping in the 6th gears from the old FC470 and that was that!
but you lied!
when i went to measure up the box today from a 2000 FC501 i ran out of fingers! i got confused as i wrote down numbers that didn't add up from the doc.
ok, so lets start again! as you know, the gearbox reads
INPUT AHEAD OF OUTPUT.
that the gears read from left to right:
1 - 5 - 3 - 4 - 6 - 2
the gears as presented in recent times are
............. 1......5.......3......4.......6 ......2
input; ....14....24....19....23....27....17
output:...33....22....26....25....20....30
but the 501 had the following:
.............1......5.......3......4.......6 ......2
input;....15....24....20....23....25....18
output;..32....22....25....24....21....28
on the MXer:
first is much, much taller
second is much taller
third is ever so slightly taller
fourth is ever so slightly taller
fifth is exactly the same
sixth is shorter and the gears 25 and 21 are well known to us from the doc.
i don't know why it hasn't shown up before but it's a great disappointment. maybe "they" weren't aware that to fit taller bottom gears can just about have the same effect as a load of shorter top end gears.
i'm sure DrC and any other RR boys as well as SM boys would be very, very interested in this information.
this will go in the doc. under tuning.
regards
Taffy
you promised me that the close ratio gearbox amounted to no more than dropping in the 6th gears from the old FC470 and that was that!
but you lied!
when i went to measure up the box today from a 2000 FC501 i ran out of fingers! i got confused as i wrote down numbers that didn't add up from the doc.
ok, so lets start again! as you know, the gearbox reads
INPUT AHEAD OF OUTPUT.
that the gears read from left to right:
1 - 5 - 3 - 4 - 6 - 2
the gears as presented in recent times are
............. 1......5.......3......4.......6 ......2
input; ....14....24....19....23....27....17
output:...33....22....26....25....20....30
but the 501 had the following:
.............1......5.......3......4.......6 ......2
input;....15....24....20....23....25....18
output;..32....22....25....24....21....28
on the MXer:
first is much, much taller
second is much taller
third is ever so slightly taller
fourth is ever so slightly taller
fifth is exactly the same
sixth is shorter and the gears 25 and 21 are well known to us from the doc.
i don't know why it hasn't shown up before but it's a great disappointment. maybe "they" weren't aware that to fit taller bottom gears can just about have the same effect as a load of shorter top end gears.
i'm sure DrC and any other RR boys as well as SM boys would be very, very interested in this information.
this will go in the doc. under tuning.
regards
Taffy
