Earthur
New member
Anyone else with the MT or XR series have an outer bearing failure? Left side started leaking after I did a 450 hour service. Tore it down and the outer bearing, inner bearing, and lower shaft bearing were full of metal and The bull gear had ate into the case.. so I bought all new bearings, put it all back together. Started thinking I should tear down the right side and have a peak, no issues but wanted to confirm. This is what I found.. appears the clearance from the factory with 2 shims behind this bearing is not enough and the bull gear eats into the case causing the outer bearing to fail which takes out at least 2 others. Wish I had took pics of the left side before I put it back together.. $250 later
