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Steering upgrade for my !heavy! maxx

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Well I have a mostly aluminum maxx, rrp steel gear kit FOC, steel cvds, and steel center shafts. I have the bulkless FLM front and rear, flm arms, flm braces, flm front and rear skid plate, flm shock mounts, big bores, trinity blue HD springs, rc solutions cage, os21tm, stock 3.3 chassis and electronics. I am upgrading to a bluebird 821 highspeed high torque steering servo and probally moving the 2055 to the throttle or getting another 821 for the throttle. I was looking for steering upgrades, I dont have knuckles yet, but not worried about that now. I have the stock 3.3 turnbuckles and keep ripping them out of the end peices. I have tried to find metal end peices for the turnbuckles to no avail. My main concern is steering. I want to upgrade the bellcranks and such. Went to my LHS and they told me the best they can get is the integy, they cannot get proline steering. Which should I get? I would imagine the integy parts would be fine for this application even though they are weak, but I have read nothing but good things about the proline steering kit. WTF should I do? As you could imagine it is heavy as all hell in comparison to a stock 3.3.
 
I think the latest e-maxx comes with an integrated servo saver in the steering assembly like the pro-line kit. You may want to look that up and get what's needed to change yours over.

Found it: http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXTKN2&P=ML

Might be worth a try since it's only $9. I'd buy bearings for where it uses bushings though.
 
The thing I like most is that its alum with threaded holes for the steering linkages. What bearings would I use with a kit like that though?
 
Well, it would use 2 5x11's on the saver part and I would guess 2 5x8x2.5's on the other post.

On tower, it does say that it can be used on the nitro maxx series as well.

As for being threaded, the kit does use a captured horn where the servo connects, so you shouldn't have to worry about it coming apart. I never had an issue with them on my revo or my jato as they used the same style.
 
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I have a Dynamite aluminum steering upgrade and it helps my rig.
 
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So noone has the integy one? It has alum everything it looks like where proline has harder plastics and alum. I'll check them all out and see which seems to be the best...
 
Proline is supposed to re-release the kit. Dont know when....
The cross bar on mine stripped and I had to run a longer bolt with a nut on the other side of the alum cross bar.
 
Are you guys with the Proline steering running standard TMaxx rod ends on the servo rod? I put TRX rod ends on here and it seems to be a bit long.
 
I bought mine used and it had a rod as well as a servo horn as well. It seems to be the same as stock. My only problem is my lunsford hinge pins are just long enough that if shifted all the way back hit the steering linkage. I stopped this with an a-arm shim in the front to keep it out of the way.
 

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