Mirage drive question

[monkey]

Hello everyone,
I have a quick question regarding my older Mirage drive. (It has the stainless sprockets)
On each sprocket, one of the sprocket guides are loose on the shaft. One is loose in the front side of the fin, the other on the rear.
Should I try to re-glue to the shaft somehow? I can't find any diagrams online to see if this is normal.
Thanks!

[dsafety]

While there may be some members of this forum that can answer your question, you can probably get help quicker by going directly to Hobie Kayak support. http://www.hobiecat.com/support/index-kayak.html

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I hope that this helps.

Bob

[Billy V]

Originally Posted by monkey

Hello everyone,
I have a quick question regarding my older Mirage drive. (It has the stainless sprockets)
On each sprocket, one of the sprocket guides are loose on the shaft. One is loose in the front side of the fin, the other on the rear.
Should I try to re-glue to the shaft somehow? I can't find any diagrams online to see if this is normal.
Thanks!

Without good pics its hard to say. The drive is completely rebuildable, but the cost of rebuilding the old style unit verses buying the New and much improved V2 mirage drive may be similar.

-At the least your cables are probably stretched to the max. These cables are what creates the balanced tension to hold the drive together, around $100. if you add in pulleys, sprockets, axles, fins, you would be past the cost of a new drive and still have the old model.

-The new drives are smooth and very efficient, with all the bugs worked out.