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Mad Fighter (DT-01 Chassis) Steering Slop

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I am finishing the basic build of my DT-01 Mad Fighter and I am seeing a great deal of slop in the steering.  Being a Tamiya fan I am used to seeing sloppy steering and I can often overlook it, but this one is pretty excessive.  

The issue lies in the stock saver and bent linkage, there is a lot of slack in that setup (PIC).   I am going to be reworking this with some different components, but I would like to see some of the setups that you guys/gals have used on these cars if you have any...

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Some use a threaded rod with ball joints, others use heat shrink tube around the stock rod.

Other things to look at are the plastic rods for the steering, I replaced them with threaded rods on my Mad Bull. There's also some slop in the A-arms, where the pegs meet the chassis.

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If you take a look in the many Mad Bull threads on here, you'll see pictures of the above-mentioned solutions in action.

 

Personally I went for the heatshrink tubing approach, and it has held up nicely to the best part of a year's use with no appreciable wear.

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Thanks guys, I honestly hadn't thought of shrink tube.  I have plenty of that laying around and that would be pretty simple to do.

Thanks for the heads up I will browse through the threads and have a look see.  Not sure why I didn't think of that first..  Excitement I guess! ;)

 

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And I'm excited to see pics of your finished Mad Fighter :)

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Well here it is thus far.  Tomorrow I am taking the kids to the local dirt track to play with our cars so it will be its break-in run.   I went through the steering last night with some stuff from my parts bin: ball ends from a CC-01 and steering turnbuckles from a Stampede, plus I used a section of pushrod that was larger Ø than the stock link and fit snug in the steering horn.  I used a dubro ball link on the other end and a Kimbrough saver on top of shimming the arms like you suggested...  Its like day and night difference in feel with little to no slop and it straightened out the massive tow problem at ride height.  Thanks for the suggestions!

Specs: 
- Stock Motor
- TEU104BK ESC
- Full Bearings 
- 84oz dual bearing servo
- 3300 NiMH
- Jconcepts Groovy Front Tires / Stock Rear

I have a set of CVA shocks on order for it and I will upgrade to a steel pinion + I may install a hotter motor soon.  It all depends on what I feel the power level is like for the car.  

 

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