[gmhouben]

I have been running my buggy and truggy without any mods, and no servo failures yet (knock on wood). I have a brand new king headz servo tray brace that is collecting dust. There are some mods that people do, but I have not needed them. My 2 cents.

[c-low74]

Originally Posted by gmhouben

I have been running my buggy and truggy without any mods, and no servo failures yet (knock on wood). I have a brand new king headz servo tray brace that is collecting dust. There are some mods that people do, but I have not needed them. My 2 cents.

garth, that's the whole problem! only half of the kit sold are having problems and also about half of the rtr's LOSI PRO DRIVER"S posted about it on grid and said they know there is a problem and are working on a solution for the problem guys that been racing for any where from 4 to 20 years are having the servo failures and have never had one before the losi they are also complaining about the slide on the carb wearing a groove into it because of the angle

[matt2]

I had my first servo failure last weekend in my buggy, but it was a 2 year old hitec 625. I went through 2 of the same servo in my X ray last year. To be honest ive sat and stared at my buggy and caint see how the car could destroy the servo. The only mod i do is slot the hole in the battery box and use a longer bolt and nut and allow it to slide back and forth alittle.

Matt

[NS]

Burnt servos could be caused from a lot of different problems, but not usually linked to chassis flex.

I feel some of the problems can be linked back to the linkage hardware itself..........................

The negative throttle spring (The one that compresses when brakes are applied) has a very high compression rate...That alone will not burn out a servo..... but add that to;

The brakes on the 8 are either On - or - OFF. There is very little travel between the two as the force is not progressive enough, which will make the servo apply much of its force over a very small degree of rotation + - 1 degree).

Remedies can be
1/ use a softer negative throttle spring and;
2/ use softer fuel tubing to spread out the brake application rate and to make sure the EPA is on the light side for braking.

My 5 cents (inflation)