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I've been watching a few videos on youtube now, as well as various mods pictures, and noticed that often people ommit the servo saver in SRB chassis. So I wonder if the servo saver is at all necessary, and to what extent it actually *saves* the servo. I am about to receive a couple of re-re buggies soon, the Sand Scorcher and Fighting Buggy, I got off ebay. My aim is to fit a large 5000 mAh battery pack inside the water resistant box on the scorcher, risking the servo mounting it on top of the box which means that I will probably need to remove the servo saver mechanism.

Any views on if this is a good or a bad thing?

Hmm, I would be sceptic to removing the servo saver entirely. Sooner or later you will hit a curb or something, and break your servo.

I can't see why a larger battery would cause the SRB servo saver to be removed?
I guess I don't understand what modifications you are planning.. (?)

Thanks for your reply. I guess I'm a little too premature here, I will ofcourse take some good shots of my plans once I get my scorcher, and that oversized power pack.

Ok, so it would mainly destroy the servo (ofcourse, *servo* saver), but I'd imagine a crash from the front/side would primarily bend one or both 'steering shafts'/ "front members" - or no? Maybe depending on what servo I use. I've seen 5-6 kg types up to 10-6 kg heavy duty types.

I'm looking forward to you plans

I run my scorcher on 6V with a 5cell NiMh (3000mAh) and a sportstuned, thats enough to get the motor hot whilst running on gravel or the beach and runtime more than enough. the five cell fits perfectly into the battery box.
Another option is to get rid of the battery box, get an wider alloy chassis plate and mount the servo up front directly connected to the knuckles with an high torwque servo saver on the servo.

like this

or more fancy

Thanks for great advice, Water. Your first picture has a very feng-shui solution. A good strong servo mounted onto the chassi with screws, and hooked directly to the front members. The other solution has an issue that favours the left front wheel to turn more than the right. It kind of puts me off, but I'm not sure. What do you think?

waterbok wrote:

I run my scorcher on 6V with a 5cell NiMh (3000mAh) and a sportstuned, thats enough to get the motor hot whilst running on gravel or the beach and runtime more than enough. the five cell fits perfectly into the battery box.
Another option is to get rid of the battery box, get an wider alloy chassis plate and mount the servo up front directly connected to the knuckles with an high torwque servo saver on the servo.

like this

or more fancy

Some parts look very similar too the ta turning system... and tl 01 servo post???

Actually looking at the second solution it does seem both wheels willl turn the same degree.

Are those parts stock of some sort, or DIY?

Look very similar to GPM aloy link bars for TA01/02 frp chassis

A few nood-questions, if you please.

I've got these Futaba S3001 servos with my last buy here, and I am wondering if they are optimal, or at least OK for my SRB chassis, and maybe also for my Holiday Buggy. The S3001 come with ball bearings, "indirect drive", and can pull 3kg according to specs. What servos would recommend?

And, can the S3001 servos be used with the Tamiya Finespec TRU-08 receiver?
Can any servo be driven by any receiver? Or are there restrictions?

I also got the ESC from Tamiya TBLE-02S. Does it work with a Finespec?

I like the Tamiya Finespec 2,4gHz system, both the feel and looks are very attracting. The wheel could have a slightly softer spring perhaps, but otherwise it sits very well in my hand. Any opinions about it in general? Is it an OK system for my SRB buggies? What would you recommend alternatively?