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I was told to get rid of it!! I mean I can see it would put some huge forces on either side of the housing, especially if you grabbed the wrong gear.
That's not my position on the matter Doug, I was repeating the rest of what was said in regards to the motor-chain contact issue.Personally I believe the benefits of running an idler outweigh the cost of setting the idler up properly. Gusset the idler bolt mounts and you'll snap chains before you break the idler off the housing...
Did someone actually claim the idler mount would rip off the housing? NFW Mine has at least a 3/8" bead to the housing on both sides of it!!! The housing would fail before the idler would rip off. Somebody is just spewing with no knowledge of strength of materials or weld strength, bead size, etc.................
Nope. They said that they snapped a smaller bolt in double shear clean through when they downshifted on tarmac.But with a 5/8 high tensile bolt, you'd snap the chain before you broke the bolt. Next weakest point? The welds holding the bolt mounts onto the housing. Unless you run a nice big fat bead both sides of each fitting as you said. Even so, I personally would gusset it anyway, just because I like to over-build stuff like that.