Thanks man! Yep, Boardnamics 270mm trucks. Going to switch to these Luna 350s though, I was getting some wheelbite with the BN270s. Just waiting on truck adapters.
I move my feet way too much to feel comfortable with bindings. I think I’d only want bindings on a jumper style board, and even then I think I’d rather use sky hooks.
Remove the cover and spur gear. Spin the motor by hand without the gear and see if the sound persists. Then put the gear back and spin it without the cover on.
Really inspect those teeth really well. I had a similar sound issue and turned out to be a 1-2 malformed teeth on just one side of the tooth which explains why the sound only happens when spun one way.
Your pinion breaking free could have caused a deformation, but it maybe fine too. A proper sized file can fix the malformed teeth
Also, personally if i ran helicals, I would delete the circlip and use the exact length spacers from motor bearing to pinion. That would relieve the sideload stress on pinion loctite and take away the possibility of a circlip jumping out.
Yes. This is why I don’t run my moon helicals anymore. Since they weren’t mirrored, one was held on with loctite only while the other had washer shim backups. Braking switches the lateral forces of course.
Ideal solution would be a bespoke spacer made out of one piece but washer stacking works until you break your loctite. Then the can and shaft separate and it can cause a magnet misalignment which is negative fun.
Still curious how my circlip jumped to that side of the shaft