Anyone know why this spring is here?
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Anyone know why this spring is here?
As I went through the M62 I had to ponder the purpose of this spring. All it does is puts a slight load on the bearings and being fairly high speed bearings they are not extremely tight and could use a little load. It's not a counter thrust spring as there is no thrust created. The rotor gears are spur cut which gives us that awesome whine. That bearing has the largest amount of clearance and I could see it trying to walk in the housing which that spring would aid in keeping it going the correct direction into the coupler but the front bearing has a great press fit.
If you haven't replaced these before, the coupler drive has to come off to remove the bearing.
If you haven't replaced these before, the coupler drive has to come off to remove the bearing.
Last edited by Henry3959; 05-19-2017 at 01:24 PM.