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11-03-2009, 07:11 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Oslo, Norway
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|  Long steering link
Are there any pros (or cons) of running a longer steering link? I see that a lot of people use a longer steering link when putting their steering servo to the side of the batteryplate. I use a battery/4-link plate from STRC and instead of using the short link included with the plate, I thought I'd use a 70 mm link for the steering. |
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11-03-2009, 05:21 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Behind the wheel
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11-03-2009, 05:59 PM
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| dnf   Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Under a big fkn rock.
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my wife,and sons truck are both long links from servo,with high clearence link between knuckles. the high clearence really helps aproaches.
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11-03-2009, 11:16 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Oslo, Norway
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I installed the longer link, and it seems to me (without testing on the rocks) that it steers more equal to both sides.
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11-04-2009, 12:28 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Greece, sun, sea and rocks
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I also use a longer link, 68mm. One thing I noticed for sure is that the longer link puts less stress to the knuckle. With the pastic ones I use, twisting occurs much later than with short arm. This translates to more steering for me.
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11-04-2009, 05:48 PM
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| Shelf queen  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Internet
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A longer steering link travels on a flatter plane. the benefit of this is that since the angle of the steering link deflects less, it allows for more maximum travel. You may have to play with the length a little to get equal travel in both directions, but it's worth the time and effort especially if you have high angle knuckles and cvd's. |
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11-04-2009, 07:15 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Canada
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by a long link do you mean as in switching the link from one side of the servo arm to the other?
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11-04-2009, 07:23 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Orange
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i run a long link b/c the servo gets hot under stress(stering) with the short link i blew two servos in one week and changed it up and i have have the same servo for a year. |
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11-04-2009, 08:51 PM
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11-04-2009, 09:03 PM
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11-05-2009, 09:20 AM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fresno
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11-05-2009, 12:00 PM
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| Shelf queen Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Internet
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i forgot about that. I just log straight in to the forums and forget about the main site sometimes.
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