Is my servo saver just not saving

[spad]

I have a new mission and in my first race i chewed up the teeth in my servo i put a new servo in and it chewed the gears up on this servo as well although these were only standard servos. Do i need better servos or is my servo saver not doing its job. is it posible to get servos with metal teeth or something.

David

[burgie]

you can buy a hi-tec metal geared servo for £30.

It does sound as though your servo saver is too tight though. Try unwinding the coller on the servo saver spring (do they still do them that way on schumachers) and see if your teeth last a little longer. Alternatively, try driving a wider, more conservative line, and avoid the track markers.

Sounds to me like you have the screws done up to tight on the servo saver on the car (the 2screws on the top deck) take the servo out and move the wheels side to side as if it was steering, if it is free its not the screws but if it is hard to turn then loosen the screws, the reason you are stripping the teeth is because you ave putting a load on the teeth because the screws are to tight, the only other thing it could be is that you have the wrong servo horn on. E.G you have a acoms servo and put a futaba horn on.
Mark

[jason]

Spad,
Few thing to check,
1 Remove the link between the servo and the servo saver. Does all steering move freely. If not check screws as above.
2 Have you over tightened the collar, there shoule only be about one turn of thread showing above it.
3 Are you using the correct servo horn?
4 Reconnect the link and check the travel in both directions, if the lugs on the hubs hit the stops on the wishbones and the servo keeps traveling turn down the rates or adjust the end points to avoid labouring the servo.


Jason

[spad]

i have it sorted now. thanks for the help though

what was the problem?anything that was listed?

[spad]

The mission comes with a saver built into the car but if its not set up very well or not at all then it don't work, so i bought a good servo saver to put on the servo.

Has anyone gotany idea for how to set it up properly?!?

[al]

i ran mine quite loose, i ran it as far up to the top as possibe with out it fouling on the chassis !

al :)

I run mine fairly loose, never broken a servo in the car.....apart from when I got t-boned and it snapped! thats not the cars fault tho.