RideFire

Wow, thanks for all the replies. Very helpful info here.

Is this set worth purchasing. It looks like a really cool set especially with the working transmission. Anyways, thought??? I have began collecting technic sets again. The sets I currently own are: 8265 front loader 8053 mobile crane 8052 container truck 8043 excavator 8110 unimog

I disagree. When the car is off, it is difficult to move the steering wheel. When the car is on, it is easy to move the steering wheel regardless of motion. The reasoning is modern cars have power steering to aid in turning. In the case of the Unimog, removing the friction pins makes turning fairly easy.

Ahhh that has to be it. Does lego make a no friction long pin with stop bush? I noticed they're usually tan in color. I have no friction long pins but this has been bugging me all day. It is fairly stiff even with all of the adjustments I have made. Thanks for letting me know what I was missing.

I read that whole that whole topic. Im guessing the silicon + the frictionless pin was too much. I noticed if I change to the tracks, if I move the left side tracks it throws the changeover into gear.

If you do that, you ll let the magic smoke out and it won t work anymore.

This post is about problems about the LA. I myself have just carefully built the excavator and I'm having a lot of problems with the change over. I have replaced the the blue friction pin with the tan frictionless pin that come as an extra piece. I have replaced the yellow cog wheel like gears with two bevel gears ( I believe one is 12 tooth and the other is 24 tooth) so that I generate more torque yet I still have problems. I can go to the 'boom' controls just fine, no problems at all, but it struggles to go to the 'track' controls. I took the motor out and manually tried to change over the gear. It still catches and I just can't see what is stopping the clutch gears from engaging, especially since it has no problems going to the boom controls even before I made any adjustments. I'm convinced its not a motor on a battery issue. I have stripped the back of the tractor apart to see if I could see anything causing the problem but while operating the tractor with missing pieces beams start to loosen up. So I'm scratching my head on this one. I will say after making the adjustments I mentioned, it has improved to about almost 50 percent of the time engaging, but still its annoying. I'm not sure what to do here.

It's suppose to consume less power due to better transistor design.

Hi, I'm new to this forum but I do frequently read post here. Anyways, I just bought lego 8043 off of lego.shop and the IR sensors are V2's. I wasn't sure if anyone else was aware of this by I'd thought I'd point it out. My first post and first edit. Haha, When I said sensor, I meant receiver.