golden horizons servo saver

[Toycar]

Whoops sorry, the servo saver you posted will most likely fit a savage but it won't be much or an improvemet if at all over the stock savage version. It's of the same design. The only difference between the one you're referring to over the stock mgt servosaver is the one you posted fits a hitec servo and the stock one fits the stock futaba servo. The GH upgrade will be the ultimate setup.

The kimborough saver will be stiffer than the stock one when new but within a short time it will loosen leaving you with spongy steering again. I and many others experienced this.

 

[Doggie]

No, the MGT servo saver will not fit the savage. The mgt servosaver arms are 180 degrees offset vs the savage servosaver are slightly less than 90 degrees offset. In addition the position of the arms on the length of the belcranks is different. The team associated servosaver lists for 69.99. Gh also has an Al upgrade for the mgt at 49.99. I go to GH all the time and they are packaging the savage aluminum servo saver upgrade as fast as humanly possible. I know they will sell everyone they make. Be patient this part is worth the wait. Too bad I sold my savage.

I don't understand what you meant by the 180/90 degree offsets on the servo arms. And I think the slight variation of the distance between the ball connector and the pivot point shouldn't hurt?

The GH servo saver looks great, but I'd like to get away with a $6 servo saver, instead of $46.

edit: Just saw your follow up post. I see, thanks for sharing your experience with the Kimbrough saver^^

 

[Toycar]

The stock mgt saver sucks like the savage one. I changed to the team associated aluminum upgrade soon after I got the MGT. Until the GH unit becomes available savage owners are out of luck. The ofna pirate servosaver upgrade works okay but leaves you with reduced steering to one side and can not be made to work 100%. The arms are placed at greater angle apart, the two arms are on different positions on the length of the belcrank causing contact with the gearbox case, and the arms are straight unlike the elbow bent stock ones.

I had the savage for about 8 months before I sold it. My wife hated it because I worked on it everynight 7days a week. Obsessed, I was trying to get all the bugs worked out so it would perform well. i got fed up and sold it.

Well servo saver arm positioning is of ultimate importance. The stock ones are molded and fixed and do not move in vertical direction and the servosaver belcrank one does. This means when the belcrank saver is activated one of the arms move, either the top one moves up or the botom one moves down. Because there is a limitted amount of space if these are out of position you will contact parts like the front gearbox case such as when one uses the monster pirate servosaver.

Arm position is if you look at the stock servosaver the link coming from the steering servo connects to one of the arms of the right side steering belcrank and the other arm on the same steering belcrank connects to the draglink. The angle seperating these two arms on the same belcrank is what I mean by offset. The Mgt is 180 degrees apart where as the savage is less than 90 degrees or if you look from the other way more than 270 degrees apart.


You want everyhting to line up 90 degrees or 180 degrees. If you have the plastic link between the servo and servosaver on an angle and not straight you will loose servo torque. Look a a pythagorean triangle. If the arm is on an angle you will have a horizontal force vector along with a vertical one.