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Proline Steering kit eew aah!

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HumboldtBlazer

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Ok I am tired of breaking servo savers. After 3 stock ones and a Kimbrough medium stripped I just went to the LHS because I am sick a tired of my servo saver issues. I hope this kit helps. Anyone have any experience with this kits? Anything to watch out for or dont do? What did you notice after you installed it? Did I get ripped off for $48 bucks?

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Right now, next to the SuperMaxx version, that is perhaps the best steering kit out there. You got a good hop-up. Enjoy!
 
I have one on my 2.5 and love it.
It was the first part I purchased for my Cyber-Maxx project.

You will find your steering to be more responsive and you wont be buying servo-savers any more. Don't you just love when after you make a hack landing from some big air having your truck do nothing but turn right......... You will never hear yourself say: O-poop there goes another one.

Loosen it up a bit for bashing and tighten it up for racing.
 
I have the proline steering kit on my t-maxx and I love it. I instantly saw a vast improvement in how responsive the steering is. I would say it is worth every bit of it's price and then some. I, like so many others, have gone through over 5 Kimbrough servo savers in the last year and a half. This proline server saver seems bullet proof.

A very wise investment indeed.
 
Whats so great about these kinds of Steering Kits..How do they get better response ?Is it that spring that i can see on the steering post ?It looks almost the same as the SuperMaxx Version.
 
With the 'normal' servo savers, you basically have a spring inside. When a certain amount of force is applied, the spring compresses thus taking the shock off of your servo. The downside is as the spring gets older, it gets weaker. Once this happens, you get the "mushy" steering response that we all know and love.

With the proline steering kit, and any 1/8th style servo saver, the spring is holding two pieces together. These two pieces have a taper fit. On one side you connect the servo and on the other side is the steering linkage. Only if the force is great enough, will the spring have to compress. Even then, the spring will not have to compress very much at all, so you end up getting more life out of the spring.

To put it another way, with a standard servo saver, the spring has to hold and transfer all of the 'force' that your servo is generating. With the proline steering kit, this is not the case. The spring only has force on it when it is needed, not all of the time.

If I am not correct, somebody please correct me.. :)
 
Originally posted by FastEddy
I have one on my 2.5 and love it.
It was the first part I purchased for my Cyber-Maxx project.

You will find your steering to be more responsive and you wont be buying servo-savers any more. Don't you just love when after you make a hack landing from some big air having your truck do nothing but turn right......... You will never hear yourself say: O-poop there goes another one.

Loosen it up a bit for bashing and tighten it up for racing.
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Your the influnence that made me want to buy it when I was down last time. Thanks Ed!

Should I use a certian type of servo saver for it? I just bought the stock Traxxas one since that was all that was there when I bought the kit yesterday. Any suggestions?
 
I let you know how it goes (installation) and run it and let you know what I noticed different about it probably tomorrow as I plan to install it tonight. I have some Ti hinge pins going in also so I'll give the truck the old hosing down. I have a feeling I going to need extra E-clips.
 
The proline kit is excellent but I really hope you didn't pay the full retail for $48 for it.:opps:
You should be able to pick it up for under $40 at most local hobby shops.
 
I live in a remote are and if I drove 3.5 hrs I could get it for that at Ed and my favorite hobby shop JPH. The LHS is about 5 months old up here so he's just starting out. He's the first in our area and RC'ing is picking up. I know he gives me a 5% discount so whatever 48$ minus the 5% is. I dont mind paying a little more to support the LHS as I am a beliver in them.
 

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