Aftermarket steering brace for the 18B
 

I searched w/out luck for the steering brace that someone had posted a link to...it is a one piece mount made of a clear plastic , if I remember correctly...any ideas? It is not Integy or any other major co...it was a co. that I had not heard of before..

I think you may be thinking about the RC18 drag link that used to be made by Driven Productions. I had to dig up a billing invoice from early 2006 to find this but their site drivenpro.net doesn't seem to be around anymore.

You may be able to find something on e-bay.

Here's a few items I found that I used to run on my RC18:

http://cgi.ebay.com/RC18T-18B-18MT-18R-Driven-Productions-GEAR-COVER-NIB_W0QQitemZ220289288885QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item2 20289288885&_trkparms=72%3A1421|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3 A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

http://cgi.ebay.com/RC18T-18B-18MT-Driven-Productions-DRAG-LINK-L-K-WH_W0QQitemZ220289340097QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item22 0289340097&_trkparms=72%3A1421|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A 12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Hope that's what you are looking for - do a search for drven productions on e-bay and you;ll find a few different products.

Thanks for the tip....It wasn't driven products, I saw it a week or so ago and can't remember the co. name. I will look up those products on e-bay...thanks

I actually found the one I was looking for...http://www.toadztoyz.com/servlet/the...-Driven/Detail

Delrin is some good strong material. That should work quite well.

I hope so...I am tired of the slop in the steering

It works good, I had one.

http://www.thetoyz.com/cart/thetoyz_...riven+steering


What really cleaned up the slop for me was lundsford rods and 10th scale servo to use without the saver. Their servo saver design on the rc18's blow. I tried EVERYTHNG.
This thing; http://www.thetoyz.com/cart/thetoyz_...cat_name=RC18T
the aluminum steering brace got slop after awhile.

The only thing that held up was an oversized servo w/o the saver.

the aluminum steering crap kills servos also..

how the heck did you get a 1/10 scale servo in there?
i barely seem to fit a hs65 in there.

I bent some metal around it and made a custom brace. It wasnt easy :no:. Unfortunatly, I dont have any good pics of it to show you. I just sold it to blueb8llz. Maybe he can post some better pics for ya.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...jsam/rc18t.jpg

o damn you werent kidding.

well i just bought my third hs65 and if this one strips on me then i am going to go for a bigger servo.

I don't want to hijack the discussion on this thread of the RC18 steering but it's all been done and said so many times before. I think RC-Universe has some better discussions than here on 1/18 because there are parts of the forum just dedicated to the mini's and things BL here tend to be a bit larger scale.

IMO - the RC18 is a great little buggy/truck and I had one for easily 1 - 2years, but ultimately the steering issues, the developing slop issues and the leaking shock issues just got the better of me and I got the XRay M18T - maybe a little more expensive in the beginning but I have not had to replace a single part in 2 years, there is no steering slop, the shocks are awesome and the steering design is really impressive.

I don't think X-Ray makes anything that is bad. I have never heard of a single X-Ray complaint myself. This steering slop thing is what has kept me from buying an 18B. I have always liked them but do not want to deal with it. Even the guys I know who have worked to correct it still have issues.

i was looking to get an m18t a couple months ago but got a great deal on an 18t. the issues that you mentioned can be fixed vintage... except for steering slop. i think that is pretty much impossible to get rid of on these applications.

im trying all i can to prevent it or make it as nice as possible but still... its pretty bad.

hopefully someone will come up with something to fix it.

Unfortunately the models been out quite a while now with no true fix. I'm trying to remember what I ultimately did to try and fix it and I think it was going with a solid servo horn on a metal gear servo (one of the Hitecs mentioned here). I don't recall it fully fixed the problem and if you bumped anything going quick with a sidewards glancing blow to the front wheels it would strip servo gears.

One thing I would say is don't waste any money on the FT stuff as it is soft and will develop more slop over time.

Good luck.

I recently got the truck back to do some work.

I snapped some pics for ya;

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...m/IMG_1491.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...m/IMG_1492.jpg

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k1...m/IMG_1494.jpg