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Holiday Buggy Servo Issue

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Hello Tamiya Club!

I'm in the process of building the re-released Holiday Buggy and have run into a problem with my servo being too tall!

The instructions indicate the servo has an allowable height variance of 12mm-15mm. Unfortunately, the servo I bought is about 18mm in that dimension and so the turnbuckles interfere with the chassis. I tried flipping the ball heads around (pictured), but then the turnbuckle hits the body of the servo saver.

Seems like the only solution is to replace the servo? Any servo suggestions?

Turnbuckle in correct orientation

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Flipped Turnbuckle 

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Instructions

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Maybe you could try some slimmer ball connectors. I myself would by another suitable servo and keep this for another project.

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1 hour ago, Sir Crashalot said:

You could slot the servo mount holes in the chassis or drill new holes which will move the servo back.

I thought about that, but the holes are recessed (which complicates things) and there isn't much room behind the servo. And one of the holes is already slotted along the other axis.

I'll probably take Aerobert's advice and get another servo, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious.

Thanks for your suggestion. 

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