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Please please please can someone please tell me how to make the Savage brakes more effective coz the stock brakes SUCK!!! the savage has no stopping power i heard about this one way where like u lower the actuator rod and the truck stops on a dime it wil even flip over , the brakes will lock, but i dunno how to do it, i kno some one where has done it, can u tell me how to do it please thanx:dumb:
 
There should be a black gnurled looking knob on the end of the control rod for the brakes. This knob should be close to the servo horn. It is a threaded knob that when turned clockwise relative to the face of the knob, the control rod effectively gets shortened. This allows the servo to apply more pressure to the brakes when the servo is at maximum throw. If you turn the knob the other direction, it has the opposite effect.

Aside from the hump pack suggestion above, I believe this will give you immediate results of the sort you might be after.

If you go to page 48 (step 54) of your owner's manual and look at the image in the upper most inset, you will see a graphic of the knob I am talking about. On the blow up in the middle of the page it is labeled as part number 85050 and looks to have a philips head socket on its face. The procedure for setting up your servo and radio is also laid out very well on page 10 of the owner's manual under a heading of step 3 Setting full brake.
 
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No problem. I had the same issue with the brakes the first time out, and found the knob to be the most inexpensive method of curing the problem.
 
Yeah, the stock brake is pretty good. I regularly do a foreward flip when I forget what surface I'm running on and what tires that are on the truck. Grass and the proline Maxx Mulchers will do it every time.

Two things though, be sure that the disk hasn't gotten any oil/grease on it (that'll screw the effectiveness). Also, you can change the rubber tubing to tweak the brake action. I found that the stock green tubing was a bit squishy, so I changed to Preather pink line. This stuff is a bit firmer and doesn't compress as much. It also makes great fuel lines. It is really hard to remove from a nipple.
 
To whom is that addressed, Çh®i§tiªñ?

He seems to have a stock set up. I am running a stock set up with a different fuel tube in place of the stock tube.
 
Me? Sky about summed it up. Only thing different, I'm running 4 cell dry pack with a futaba S9401 servo on throttle.
 
It's lightning fast. It's really a high speed coreless BB aileron servo, to be technicly specific. Kind of overkill for a throttle, but I had it lying around.

You can mix servos only if the pin-outs are the same (positive, negative and signal). I'm pretty sure that JR, Futaba, and the HPI radio all have the same pin outs. Airtronics used to be the oddball, but I think they have gotten standardized with the others. All have different plugs, so you might have to modify them to make them fit (may void waranty, so don't blame me).:ninja:
 
I'm running the Hot Bodies brakes - Even with the 8port this thing stops on a dime!!!



-Michael
 
savage brake

they sell a racing brake, I think Hot Bodys makes it. You must be using it on the street, is that why you need brakes?
 
I'm trying to figure out where the pink fuel line ended up - Error - can you post a pic?

I have the HB brake as well.
 
Ok Chris. I know you just want a good chuckle over my dirty truck, but I'll play along.
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I guess you could play with putting some hard tubing (like the pink stuff) and softer tubing on at the same time. Theoreticly this should make the brakes kind of "progressive", but that's like picking gnat crap out of a pile of peper.
 
Ok now I get where you were talking about. I need to put some on mine. The stock length was too short and soft. I may put some 4-40 hard rod carrier with about 1 inch of regular fuel line right next to the servo. Ill let you know how it works out!
 
need a part number for the tubing? This stuff is pretty stiff. Doesn't tend to kink also. I know it's made by prather, but I could be wrong.

One other thing about the setup. I set the lever so that only about 1-2mm are sticking out of the brake cam. This should give a little softer response, but if my tires have bite, it will flip forward in a heartbeat. This is with the stock HPI disk.
 
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