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Originally Posted by hoovhartid
ok... I might be reaching here...
did you recently remove any of the arms?
I'm wondering if maybe you forgot to replace your caster adjustment shims.
Or if you changed the caster adjustment at all. You should have two shims in each front upper suspension arm.
If you have not messed with them, maybe try adjusting them to have 2 shims towards the rear of each arm. (they go on the inside to push the arm as far back as it will go)
...this should increase your caster angle to 10 degrees, making your truck want to stay in a straight line more. Also give more traction to the front wheels etc...
Stock is 1 front 1 rear giving you 7 deg. if you put them in the front you get 3 degrees
If you don't know what the heck I'm talking about ...look at pg20 in the manual; http://www.traxxas.com/PDF-Library/3905_manual.pdf
...they explain it better than I can.
its traxxas part # 5134
anyway....what i was thinking was that if you were missing them...maybe when you accelerate the arms are sliding around on the pins and messing with your steering control. |
yea i have rpm arms and they dont require those shims. but i have the old rpm arms and they fit very snug onto the bulks. so what i did was dremel the part where it fits into the bulkhead (the hinge pins go through them as well).
if your saying that the shim is that important and will cause steering probs. i might have sanded one side more than the other! but then again, if this was the prob, i should have never been able to go top speed in a straight line, which i was able to like a month ago.
hmmm..i just checked my front arms and the top left arm do have some play. the other 3 are snug, but still free moving. i must have sanded that one a bit too much. dude, i wonder if this is the reason!! now how can i fix this? put a washer inbetween somewhere? the play is so minimal that the thinnest washer wont fit i dont think. but say it does, how would i know what side to put it on?
azjc-i decided last 9 that i was gonna get a new servo saver..but not a aluminum one cus i dont know anybody that makes a good one. i found some but people are telling me that will just bend, not good aluminum. this was gonna be my last straw, if the new servo saver fails, i was just gonna give up. i even called traxxas but he was no help at all, told me nothing i didnt know already, plus he sounded rude. i called again but same dude answered so i hung up on him haha.