Optima steering improvements

[tymill]

I definately enjoy running the old Salute, but the situation with the steering leaves lots to be desired...

Are/were there any hot tips to improve the steering linkages and the integrated servo saver?

I'm finding that the aluminium steering posts introduce quite some friction agaist the black plastic arms. I've greased them up, which helps, but it's still not great.

Also the integrated servo saver on the left post is really soft (see the pic) any ideas for improving it? I could try to re-temper or even re-stretch the spring or something, but would that be "barking up the wrong tree"? Did people just somehow disable it altogether back in "the day" and run a servo-horn-based servo saver instead? Were there Kyosho or aftermarket ball bearing cranks or anything like that available?

And what is the hot tip for mounting the steering servo? Mine's just servo taped in there. Seems to hold okay, but surely that's a bit ropey.

Thanks for any and all suggesetions!

Cheers,
Ty