Want a stronger steering servo!

[ChuenouXiao]

You guys have a stronger steering servo for my XB? The strongest or the second to the strongest that will fit our cats...? Any site? DDM?

 

[Deluge1]

What are you currently running?

 

[ChuenouXiao]

What are you currently running?

I currently have High tech 5645MG throttle servo

High tech 5755 MG steering servo.

 

[Guest]

The 5755 is a great servo if you upgrade the throttle servo you can run a 7.4 volt lipo receiver battery. The higher voltage will give your steering servo more speed and power.

Here is a chart for comparison. http://servocity.com/html/hitec_servos.html

 

[cordy]

Perhaps you should look at hobby king/tunigy sm8166/154g/33kg/.21sec/$25.Good luck .

 

[Cajun]

So I am guessing you have to upgrade the Steering servo before you put that new battery in it, my battery looks like 5 c batteries taped togther

 

[Guest]

So I am guessing you have to upgrade the Steering servo before you put that new battery in it, my battery looks like 5 c batteries taped togther

Yes. You need high voltage servos to handle over 6 volts. Your battery pack is 6 volts.

 

[TerraKill]

ive been told by some pro Fg touring car drivers that Savox make some dam good servos, ive not had one myself, but i trust there words

at a quick glance, there a bit pricey http://www.apexmodels.com/gbu0-prodshow/SAV-SB2270SG.html

 

[Ildy666]

I have savox servos on my nitro savage.what a big difference.there not cheap but work really well.

 

[KrashKrieg]

I currently have High tech 5645MG throttle servo High tech 5755 MG steering servo.

Seriously, you already run one of the strongest servos out there.

Youprobably just need to crank down on the servo saver spring.

Once you do that, you should have no problem turning Bigger Baja Tires.

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Seriously, you already run one of the strongest servos out there.Youprobably just need to crank down on the servo saver spring.

Once you do that, you should have no problem turning Bigger Baja Tires.

Servo saver spring? Please explain... I'm kinda noob

 

[KrashKrieg]

Where The servo connects to turn the car...there is a circular nut over the spring, take a pair of needle nose and crank down on the nut.

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Where The servo connects to turn the car...there is a circular nut over the spring, take a pair of needle nose and crank down on the nut.

Oh... so what that does is it loosen the steering a bit huh?

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Oh... so what that does is it loosen the steering a bit huh?

Here's my dilemma.... I run those cheap all terrain tires from King Motor for now and since they are kinda big... turning is good the first turn or when you are not going around corner too fast Then... it will seem like my radius is reduce unless I slow down or give my steering servo a chance to turn again.... I hope you know what I mean Any tips?

 

[Deluge1]

Sounds like a suspension tuning issue. Not a servo issue.

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Sounds like a suspension tuning issue. Not a servo issue.

I was thinking about slapping on some sprint tires and she if my car still acts the same?

 

[KrashKrieg]

Sorry Deluge, I still think it's his servo spring if he hasn't tightened it...

The short spring under the steering arm off the servo is your "Servo saver"

It is designed to compress when the wheels encounted 'rough stuff' so your servo doesn't bust the internal gears trying to keep the wheels straight (or turn them when going fast / rough)

The stock servo is very weak, so the spring is very loose. I could barely turn my wheels (baja fronts) on pavement standing still. Before you tighten it, just watch the spring as you try and turn your wheels, you will see it compressing.

Once you upgrade your steering servo to a strong metal gear (5755 that you have), you have to really tighten up on that spring so there is a lot less give. Trust me you will see a difference as soon as you tighten it up.

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Sorry Deluge, I still think it's his servo spring if he hasn't tightened it...The short spring under the steering arm off the servo is your "Servo saver"

It is designed to compress when the wheels encounted 'rough stuff' so your servo doesn't bust the internal gears trying to keep the wheels straight (or turn them when going fast / rough)

The stock servo is very weak, so the spring is very loose. I could barely turn my wheels (baja fronts) on pavement standing still. Before you tighten it, just watch the spring as you try and turn your wheels, you will see it compressing.

Once you upgrade your steering servo to a strong metal gear (5755 that you have), you have to really tighten up on that spring so there is a lot less give. Trust me you will see a difference as soon as you tighten it up.

K I will test it out... will update here about any further issue. Thanks Deluge and krashkrieg

 

[KrashKrieg]

Also, reading some other posts (check BigFol threads) sometimes tightening the steering post screws too much limits the servos ability to turn well...

 

[ChuenouXiao]

Also, reading some other posts (check BigFol threads) sometimes tightening the steering post screws too much limits the servos ability to turn well...

So far I haven't mess with the post screw yet.... I'm going to leave it as it is until I slap on some sprint tires and see if that fix the turn radius and intensity of the turn. The sprint tire's treads are lower profile so turning will be different and tighter. The last thing I want is to kill my steering servo because I wanted a tighter turn by messing with the post screw too much..... your thoughts?