Originally Posted by
PanicRev
Ya, Immediatly after building I held the steering rack w/ my thumb and checked the ss tension. Tight. Much tighter than I usually shoot for. I backed up the nut all the way to the bottom of the top plate then flexed the ss open and added some black grease (just a little dab) , it should work it's way around.
At least 2 guys at our track have cut one coil off the spring and are happy w/ that fix.
Note: One racer at our track had a pretty hard front end smack and broke the top half servo saver arm. To me that is just more evidence that it's too damn tight.
Agreed!!!
I replaced my busted "not meant for this application" servo with exactly the same servo..I loosened up the nut on the servo saver also and took it through some hard paces and smacks at my local track..Not one failure or break down with the "shitty" traxxas servo...Proves, I was right and the servo saver is to tight!!
I may do what your buddy's did..It held up great yesterday with some brutal side wheel smacks that were 100 times harder than that lil rub that broke the same servo the frist time...The traxxas servo may not be ideal, but more than capable imo, especially when i have seen them perform very well on the heavier slash and losi 4wd's
...I do run on a extremely loose track and think that may play a factor in why the servo may be holding up (shockingly) so well..Really happy with it's performance, especially, after hearing all the nay sayers..
...I do understand though, that I need to upgrade the servo for racing purposes
...Happy memorial weekend to all the helpful and non annoying ppl!!
