How-to: Custom steering anti-shock:

[SwampDawg]

For the most part, all of this is already included with your SCX10 kit, a few things needed are only custom fab work which includes:

17mm length alloy tube (Spacer from axle to shock end)
3mm thread rod
3mm nuts

Stock parts include:
SCX10 oil filled shock
Shock cap/Standard (No artificial piggyback) just the cap!
Bent shock end (as shown)

i dont even need to get into steps for this, looking at it, you can pretty much get the idea. But if you have questions, please shoot!!

[Flash]

that looks scale. Good job.

[JavelinSST390]

looks good, but hanging down there it's gonna get hung up alot.

I would move it up and put the one end between the steering rod and the drag-link, this will do two things, one it will get it up out of the wy, and two, it will reduce some of the angle on the steering rod and help eliminate some of your bump-steer.

[SwampDawg]

originally i tried it atop the steering link, but with a spacer from the axle, comes in contact with the steering link. ill toy with it another time and possibly have it moved, but right now atleast i have something to work with, and also with this How-to thread, gives peeps ideas how easy this mod is to perform.

thanks. all comments welcome

[SwampDawg]

Revised:

For this to work, you need the alloy tubing to be of 12mm length for the spacer from the axle to the shock end. This also takes some fiddling to make it work right. I got the 3mm thread rod along with the alloy tubing on the axle, through the shock end and tightened the nuts up. Then there was some binding between the nut and the steering link, so what i did was start bringing the thickness of the nut down by using a rotary tool until it was thin enough to allow for proper clearance between the nut and steering link.

now its out of the way, and still uses mostly stock SCX10 parts from the kit.

[DBR]

Why not put it on the driver side knuckle instead of everything on the passenger side? That way you don't have to have it all crammed together. Looks to me it might bind on passenger wheel full articulation.

'Course I am a noob and still learning Awesome idea BTW

[SwampDawg]

im not sure if it would have made any difference for which side the shock was mounted on, but in my case...i did it on the right side so everthing was uniform such as the Panhard, steering link aswell as the new anti-steer shock. But now i tweaked it lastnight and got it working properly by changing the angle of the shock end on the axle. Now im happy with the end results as shown below. With the shock out of the way from the steering link, there is no more binding.