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Primer ball on Savage

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boody1981

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Have any of you put a primer ball on your savage. It would be so much better then cranking it over while pluging the exhaust or blowing into the pressure hose. What a pain that is every time.

A mini primer ball would be the ticket.
 
Yes. I use the associated primer bulb on my savage, jato and aftershock. Can't find a good place for one on the revo though.

You can see it hiding back behind the engine on my savage:
2010-0410-SavageRollBarSide.jpg
 
What kind of apparatus do you have on your center frame handle there? Looks almost like a circuit board or something. Also what exactly have you done with your throttle/brake servo set up there? and how does it work?
 
Got bored... had a hunk of flat steel that I bent into a roll bar (since my stocker was mangled). I put a hunk of rubber hose on top of it so it wouldn't cut into the body real bad on roof landings. Then I got the bright idea of bracing it with engine mount braces and another piece of 3/16" steel. I drilled holes into it to lighten it... and let air through. Should really just use a chunk of aluminum as it would be far lighter:
2010-0410-SavageRollBarSupport.jpg

I think the big flat piece was a skid plate I had made years ago for my t-maxx. It already had a few holes in it so I could get at the engine mount bolts without taking off the plate... so the holes are more or less random now.

If I were smart... I would have spent more time on it. As it is, I have to take the stupid thing off to get the trans top off to adjust the 3 speed. That realization didn't hit me until I needed to adjust the 3-speed a month later... Hindsight.

The throttle/brake linkage is just a solid horn, threaded end wire, OFNA sliders, du-bro ball end, a and a traxxas pivot with bearings. Makes for a very smooth throttle linkage to avoid wear/slop over time:
2008-1030-SavageThrottleLinkage.jpg
 
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haha very nice. I love hearing about people back-yard rigging their savages. It looks like a purposeful mod. Do you actually have a plastic spur on there?
 

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