Originally Posted by
Crius
If I were you I'd go back to the asiatam dual ratio GBs and swap out the smaller motors (those are 360s) for 380s. I did that in my Tauchpanzer and she runs great. The one thing I don't like about steel gears is the noise. Brass gears will always run quieter than steel, that's just a given, so I try to pick up the brass GBs wherever I find them, but they're getting very rare. If they still made dual ratio brass gear boxes they would be all I run in my WWII tanks.
Those are nice gearboxes. The only downside to the dual-ratio brass boxes is that they don't fit in all WWII with 380-sized motors (380s or Speed400s). I tried that in my PzIV build and the dual-ratio gearboxes only fit with the smaller 360 motors. That's one of the reasons why I'm using the Mato dual-ratio boxes instead in that build. Don't know about the Tiger or Panthers since I don't have either tank. Would be interesting to see if someone got the dual ratio gearboxes with a 380-sized motor in either of them.
Are the 4-shaft high/low gearboxes taller than the 3:1s? Is that why they didn't fit?