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Old 02-17-2020, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by tomhugill
Thank you! That looks neat
I forgot to mention. I swapped out the stock (useless) plastic gearboxes because they were slipping and went for the usual full (pot) metal upgrade gearboxes instead of the PGSGB. I actually have one of these gearboxes on hand but I felt that it was much heavier than the equivalent metal upgrade gearboxes and altered the weight balance of the tank. This happened when it was installed in my HL Abrams and in battle I had to constantly tend my gun barrel angle. I then added weights to the nose of the tank but it also made movement more sluggish and the whole suspension sagged beyond prototypical. When I decommissioned the HL Abrams in favour of the Tamiya Abrams, I had the option of pulling it to the Challenger, and I know I am the exception in not being completely enamoured by the PGSGB's performance, but it didn't work for me and I didn't seriously consider installing it in the Challenger 2.