spare parts

[muffinman]

any body have a idea when motion will have more spare parts available?
when I purchased my T-72 pro it arrived with a broken metal suspension arm . customer service was awesome on trying to get me fixed up but they don't have any of the metal spare parts yet. soooooooooooo I ordered a spare set from mato-mart out of Canada and got part of the order yesterday . installed the arm tonight but its not the correct one . they said the T-90 and T-72 share the same suspension set up but these arms are not like the ones on my T-72 pro.
thanks
Bryan

[Rubicon99]

any body have a idea when motion will have more spare parts available?
when I purchased my T-72 pro it arrived with a broken metal suspension arm . customer service was awesome on trying to get me fixed up but they don't have any of the metal spare parts yet. soooooooooooo I ordered a spare set from mato-mart out of Canada and got part of the order yesterday . installed the arm tonight but its not the correct one . they said the T-90 and T-72 share the same suspension set up but these arms are not like the ones on my T-72 pro.
thanks
Bryan

That is correct. They are most likely for the older 5.3 T90. The new 6.0 T90/72 use a slightly different length axle arm then the old version. The axle arms look to have been changed slightly to better fit the plastic wheel option since all editions now share/use the same metal arms as standard. The old plastic wheels did not fit the old metal arms well and just flopped around. The new 6.0 combination of metal/plastic have none of the old wobble which is a hug improvement. Sorry I know that does not help, but hopefully it will provide you an understanding of why the difference.

I would bet Mato does not know about this. Heck I learned the hard way but fortunately I ordered the complete wheel and arm set (not from Mato and I only wanted the wheels) and just replaced everything. If you have the hole set of wheels and arms just replace it all with the ones from Mato.

[muffinman]

That is correct. They are most likely for the older 5.3 T90. The new 6.0 T90/72 use a slightly different length axle arm then the old version. The axle arms look to have been changed slightly to better fit the plastic wheel option since all editions now share/use the same metal arms as standard. The old plastic wheels did not fit the old metal arms well and just flopped around. The new 6.0 combination of metal/plastic have none of the old wobble which is a hug improvement. Sorry I know that does not help, but hopefully it will provide you an understanding of the why the difference.

yep that's the issue with the ones they sent these are too long where the ones on mine are shorter and the bearings sit flush , in other words when I put the screw in , it will not go down far enough to secure the bearing from coming out of the wheel. guess I will just have to wait till motion get some in and I can get a replacement . for now its working the wheel is not wanting to come off but it does wobble a little .

[Beeg]

muffinman So, how are things on Drury Lane? .......sorry, couldn't resist