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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irish John" data-source="post: 115937">Uneven Drive Problem SolvedTonight on a busy freeway I solved the uneven drive problem.  The motor was revving fine but occasionally starting to miss out on the drive - like it was engaging and disengaging alternately.  I lost my temper and pulled the clutch in really hard to stop like a motorcyclist would.  By pulling really hard on the clutch it engaged the engager really hard and this solved the problem.Although it felt and it sounded like the engager was engaging properly it wasn't.  I stopped and tightened the cable in the engager lever.  It was so simple to solve but I just didn't think that was the problem. I pulled the gears apart yesterday to look at the shaft keys.  I looked at the engager teeth and they looked OK.  The whole mechanism for the Grubee engager\ disengager is a joke.  It's back to front to the way human instincts work.  HoughMade has fabricated a reversal mechanism so you let the lever out to engage it and pull it in to disengage it.  This is the way it should have been designed but unless the spring to hold the engager in the engaged position is very strong I fear it isn't going to work well for long.  My engager needs to be held in place by a strong force so the teeth don't slip. Anyway the problem with the rough drive behaviour is solved but a proper clutch/engager lever solution still needs more thought.</blockquote>

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