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Old 18-12-2011
badger5 badger5 is offline
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Now for the steering, again some real neat touches here. The steering bellcrank posts are at the same angle as the chassis kick up to reduce bump steer. These posts are attached to simple ali bracket that is machined at the required angle.
Alternative links between the bell cranks can also be purchased to alter the ackerman angle. Option 3 link is supplied with the kit.









A small carbon bracket then is fitted to the top of the steering bell crank assembly and then a small plastic brace is bolted to the chassis, which makes the front end all very stiff and secure.

The servo lever is plastic, with 23t, 24t and 25t inserts used for the different servo types. There has been some chat about this on rctech.net, with some failures reported. But apparently if you use some cyan to glue the insert into the lever then all should be good. Some people have tried to fit alloy servo arms, some without success. I glued in the insert, but will probably buy the alloy Serpent servo arm for security.

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