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Major Steering issues

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cobaltleo

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so after almost a full season of Racing i started having major problems with my steering after rebuilding my diff's the car is a Tamiya TB03 with the default ball diffs front and rear. the diffs arent binding and it was probably more to do with the hits i was taking from the other racers the last race before the rebuild. i have completly checked the linkages and everything was strait.

I even dismantled everything and Mic'ed everything back to original spec but no matter what i keep getting it pulling to one side which it never did before. the only reason i don't believe its the diff is that I'm have the exact same problem on my TL01 which was why i bought the TB03 to begin with. so I'm looking for some help on diagnosing where to look for fixing it. I'm on a limited budget since its so close to christmas. so heres what i have so far.

1. could be the esc, which is about 7 years old Novak Explorer 2. could possibly be under feeding the servo.

2. the servo, its a hitech hs5645MG 1 year old originally purchased for my revo's steering replacement but was salvaged for the tb03 only had about 5 runs in my parking lot (no bashing) before being place in the tb-03

3. the diff, i hadn't had the problem prior to rebuilding the diffs but again i hadn't run the car since the race on Friday 11/02/2012 rebuilt the diff the following Monday 11/5/2012 noticed the problem that Thursday 11/8/2012 before the next race Friday 11/9/2012.

Sorry for the wall of text but I'm just baffled on what to try. next series race starts on 12/1/2012 and i want to be able to get back to it by then.
 
With the car off the ground dose one tire spin more freely then the opposite side. I thinking since it started to happen after you rebuilt the diff that one wheel has more drag.
 
nope they both spin pretty freely. even took it to my lhs and spoke to one of the best racers there and he didnt find anything wrong with the diff either.
 
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