Rough Rider Steering Problem

[Percymon]

In the process of rebuilding my Rough Rider.

Front end is assembled as per the manual, and bolted down onto the original chassis plate.

When i add a new Buggy Champ / SS servo saver the rear of the servo saver fouls on the middle of the three cross bars at the front. Looking at the original manual the servo saver ring hoop looks to be slightly further inboard than the new Buggy champ parts i have.

Does anyone know whether the chassis plate on the buggy champ rere had the front post hole fractionally further back in the chassis ?

[Badboy]

It doesn't! As the body are the same as original and the hole in the body are exact same so...

But the ring could be longer/larger witch cause the problem you experience...

Badboy

[Percymon]

The problem seems to be the actual plastic part that you thread the steel ring through. More specifically perhaps the position of the plastic loop for the servo saver ring.

On the original rough rider (assuming the diagram in the manual is correct) the retaining loop sits atop the plastic part E3. On the re-re the loop is at the extreme edge of the part.

You may be correct that the rere steel ring is also larger, but without the two side by side its difficult to say.

On investigation the steel ring always sits at the innermost part of the plastic loop, so i trimmed this area back - i have lost 70% of the loop, but there's no interference now. In the event the servo saver is called into action, the worst case is i'll lose the steel spring ring, easily replaced

Another option would have been to remove 3-4mm of height from the base of the body post and the servo saver plastic - this would have lowered the parts sufficiently to be beneather the central cross member and no longer interfere - a b it extreme and would have possibly led to later issues with fitting the body sell thos few mm lower at the front.

Thanks.

[Badboy]

Maybe try to get the Super Champ servosaver instead?

Badboy

[dragnse7en]

1st take a look again at the instructions and look at the servo mounting instructions. If the top of the servo is a certain height, you have have to attach the mounts to the servo a certain way, etc.