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02-07-2008, 10:56 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth
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|  anyone else set up their front axle with some caster?
I'm just wondering, but has anyone else mounted the upper pair of links in say the inner most set of holes, but the lowers in the middle set, in order to get a few degrees of caster? I have mine set up like that, but I don't know if that is the best for trail riding and rock crawling. it only changes the pinion angle by a few degrees, and the angle wasn't that bad to begin with (set up as per the manual), so I think I would be fine running that setup, but I could be and have been wrong in the past. EDIT: this rig isn't just going to be a trail rider or a rock crawler, I also want to be able to bash it a little. |
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02-07-2008, 11:15 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: One Legend.
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You'll lose some steering, but besides that there shouldn't be any other negative effects.
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02-07-2008, 11:23 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Detroit
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Negative Caster, the axle leaning back towards the center actually gives you more steering initially into a corner. You might notice push exiting a corner, but for petes sake you have lockers in this truck so great steering exiting a corner isnt gonna happen.
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02-07-2008, 03:14 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth
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ok. that's all good news to me.
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02-07-2008, 06:55 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: on the rocks
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I have mine set with alot of positive caster. I have clocked C hubs and my servo mount sits dead flat. It turns better on flat gorund, will turn into a verticle ledge very well and seems to turn sharper doing digs. I have my 1-1 rig set with a bit more than average caster as well for these reasons. | |
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02-11-2008, 10:54 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Earth
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ah, good to see that someone else has their rig set up similar to mine. I just need to get a set of RCP rear lockouts to solve the problems I've been having getting camber and caster on the rear axle when I have the links set up so that the servo mount is parallel to the ground
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