Butter Is Da Man
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Ok Guyz, I'm in dire need of some help. Traded my T-Maxx for this Savage that Jamed Up raced at our local track. It was in good shape, engine had great compression, everything still intact very nicely. A few problems, but nothing a few dollars couldn't fix good as new. Anyway, I run the truck with a standard servo (Futaba S3004) at first, figuring it could just get it started. Well didn't turn worth a "poo" but hey it worked, nothing I couldn't handle. Well the teeth inside that servo stripped. No biggy, it was a older servo, seen alot of action. So I figure, good time to go over the entire truck, clean it up really nice, and all that good stuff. Well, I go over the throttle components and discover that the throttle servo it came with was a Associated 2006 Hi-Torque servo that comes with the MGT as steering. Now light goes off in my head saying, get a standard servo for throttle, which is all I ever run, and throw the throttle servo in steering, and should be alot better off than before. Well didn't bother to clean it, all I did was swap servos, and got a standard (Futaba FS-148 Presision) off my friend for nothing. So seems great, like a good move. Now I face a huge problem. I put that servo in steering and all it does is eat the teeth off the part of the saver that goes directly on the servo. So I replaced it once, and I think in 4 minutes of running it does it again. Ok, I'm not spending another $10 to buy a bag full of crap that I need a whole one tiny piece out of. So I saw this setup on E-Bay that a person was selling. So I get intrigued to try the same setup. Well seems to work well. No problems, and not eating the teeth in it up. Well snapped the first servo horn I put on. They normally come with all Futaba servos. It was understandable because it wasn't too strong to begin with. Then my dad drills a hole out in one of those airplane rutter control pieces that goes on the servo, and it knocks all the teeth out of that, so it just slipps on top on the servo, so I finally just about an hour ago went and put a T4 steering arm on it, and worked perfect for almost one tank of gas, until it landed a little to one side, and snapped that too. Now I got Monster Truck shows in Philidelphia Spectrum, and Baltimore Arena, and this truck needs to be solid, and the way it can't even handle my back yard track, is very alarming. The rest of the truck is very durable, not worried about anything except this servo saver. A truck isn't too good if it doesn't steer correctly. I'm out of ideas. Anyone had a similar problem, or no what I could do, please help. I don't normally ask for help, but I really need it. Thanx.