Funny, every helical gear user has told me to remove the circlip lol.
Originally I had it like this:
So let’s see… I started off with using a circlip and then it got eaten up and I street faced on Halloween in full rick Sanchez costume.
Unfortunately, the helicals aren’t mirrored so one side is pushing the load into the motor, one is pushing away from it.
Then I got told to not use a circlip and to just stack washers and loctite the fucker down. This worked well until the loctite 638 broke and it ate another shim. I caught it before it got too loose and street faced me again. I switched to straight cuts and 648 loctite and I’ve been riding great ever since.
My opinion:
Those axle shims are crazy thin and flimsy. Unless you get the spacing 100% tight with solid spacers, I fear they will get eaten up while torqueing out. Either use one solid washer that’s perfectly sized or stack thick boiis and go heavy on the loctite 648. I wish someone made a perfect spacer that slips over that motor nub like this red doodley.
