Who still uses servo savers.

[Colinevan]

Just a quick post as i want to know who still uses servo savers. I ask as af ew cars iv looked at recently have all been running direct arms. Obviuosly theres no slop and not much play and a faster turning speed, but the downside is how easy is it to damage your precious metal gears etc or even transmit the shock elsewhere. I recently discovered that my trusty Kimborough servo saver has slop and for some reason does not always perfect align straight when under load. It is as if the spring has lost its tension. Before i replace with another Kimborough, i thought id ask the Q. Thanks. Col.

[telboy]

Most cars come with them built in now, so there's not much need for after market direct servo savers.

[sosidge]

Originally Posted by telboy

Most cars come with them built in now, so there's not much need for after market direct servo savers.

Not sure I agree with this, there are plenty of cars out there right now that do not have a built in servo saver - of the three cars I currently own (TT01, TOP Scythe, Durga) NONE have a built in saver, whereas a couple of years ago I was running Yokes which both had built in ones!

I always run a servo saver because I am a safety first kind of guy. However I know a lot of the drivers locally don't run them because they don't trust them and feel they take away a bit of the edge from the steering.

PS Replace your Kimbrough (if it is medium size) with the Tamiya Hi-Torque Saver - this is the best and most solid one I have yet used.

[Fiddybux]

You're talking about your 501x presumably Col.

I would just run a solid arm...I don't have any problems with this setup. I mean, how are you gonna wreck your gears? It'll be a hard knock that does it, not steering, and how often do you crash and burn so severely that it will wreck your gears or transmit the damage elsewhere.

Sure you may break a servo mount under severe conditions, but they're meant to break rather than something else - they're made out of softer plastic for that reason aren't they?

In fact I think I've been far to kind to my servo's in general, and especially when setting full lock...let them gurgle and churn is my new attitude to this.

Give it some stick!

[super__dan]

I can't stand the vagueness of a servo saver and the fact the lock winds off under high load. I chose to run metal geared servos and no saver, I glue up the std B4 one on my X6.

[Richard Lowe]

So long as you use a decent metal geared servo it'll be fine, I find the first thing to break for me is the servo horn and my KO's still have the plastic 'safety' gear in them. I've been running the truck recently with the servo saver glued up without any problems with a 2123

Don;t run without one with a full plastic geared servo though, they are like glass

[jcb]

I have never had any problems with the metal geared KO servo's through not using a servo saver. However I have broken a KO servo arm (bright orange one for the record) and also managed to break a case where it screws to the servo mounts

[Welshy40]

Originally Posted by Colinevan

Just a quick post as i want to know who still uses servo savers. I ask as af ew cars iv looked at recently have all been running direct arms. Obviuosly theres no slop and not much play and a faster turning speed, but the downside is how easy is it to damage your precious metal gears etc or even transmit the shock elsewhere. I recently discovered that my trusty Kimborough servo saver has slop and for some reason does not always perfect align straight when under load. It is as if the spring has lost its tension. Before i replace with another Kimborough, i thought id ask the Q. Thanks. Col.

I have always used Kimborough and have sworn by them since they came out with the large one, but as I have now gone from Kyosho to a Tamiya and have now started using the smaller one, which is still just as good.

I have been in this game for a long time and have never broken a servo, and I cant fault the servo saver at all, so maybe you are just unlucky with the one you have, as nothing is perfect. If you dont like them the other alternative is Kyosho or Tamiya, but they are not as good and the spring isnt up to the job, or you can do as I did with my old Lazer buggy and build your own servo saver into the steering.