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Old 03-08-2014, 03:44 PM
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Trying to do toe out and on the left it does it but on the right it won't go as far as the left. Took off turnbuckles and rebuilt them to the same size(did this with camber and toe). The right toe turnbuckle doesn't seem to be able to get any tighter but it's the same length as the left...what else could be making it not be equal?
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Have you tried adjusting steering trim? Be sure to check endpoints/travel too if your radio has it, get full turning each way without binding/bottoming out.
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Originally Posted by Dave H
Have you tried adjusting steering trim? Be sure to check endpoints/travel too if your radio has it, get full turning each way without binding/bottoming out.
Oh...didn't think about the trim...radio is 27mhz one with no EPA. Now that I think about I think I had to adjust trim more to the right when running yesterday...
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Also,make sure your truck and transmitter are turned on when checking
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Make sure the physical horn is centered on the servo.
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Hmm...I thought you were supposed to put the servo horn on facing a little to the left...I'll fix that lol
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Hmm...I thought you were supposed to put the servo horn on facing a little to the left...I'll fix that lol
In many cases that is correct, tilted in towards the middle a bit.

Reason is the servo horn end of the link is frequently higher than the steering arm end. Turning in either direction flattens out the link, causing an error in the same turning direction (hope that makes sense, tricky to explain). Some servo horn offset helps balance it out, can make the on center steering more equal (although never perfect).
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On the SCR the servo horn IS off to the left about a half spline when set. That is using epas and everything on a hudy setup. Should be the same for a non epa radio. The bummer is you have to set that with the servo literally out of the car so it's a pain but neccassary.
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Okay I took the steering apart...tightened the servo saver(again) and took out the servo and aligned it with 0 trim outside of car...put horn just slightly not straight...does this look okay? Also how tight do you have the servo saver?

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Your steering linkage is too long. Look at the pic from asc6000. That is how it should look.
Yours has a gap between the ball cups. Tighten that linkage up so there is no gap. Then make the turnbuckles the same length and recenter the arm on your servo.
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Originally Posted by orangutanracer
Your steering linkage is too long. Look at the pic from asc6000. That is how it should look.
Yours has a gap between the ball cups. Tighten that linkage up so there is no gap. Then make the turnbuckles the same length and recenter the arm on your servo.
Yea I actually just fixed that...maybe thats why i had understeer...I don't know why mine wasn't tight enough. I recentered the servo earlier and after playing with trim I think my trim was too much to the left...my radio(27mhz) doesn't show an exact place for 0 so I have to guess...but I think I got it better now. I'll recheck the turnbuckles after I finish putting this setup on it...
http://www.petitrc.com/setup/kyosho/...RCHR201010.pdf
I'm hoping it works for my track-(we normally run opposite of video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KSOS5KuI3Y
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