Just ordered a Sawback!

[JatoTheRipper]

Sweet! They look good.

[Fishcharger]

Originally Posted by soze

That's a sweet front bumper. I still need to order that for mine. Been putting it off.

Cool front bumper but a pain to install. You have to take the leaf spring shackles off and hope you have a small enough set of needle nose to hold the nut on the under side.


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[happydood]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

CMS is purely for scale looks. Servo on the axle is much better for performance.



Did you order the GMade brass tubes for the axles?

I had mine mounted on the chassis without a panhard..hated it..went with servo on axle..never looked back..you can’t really see it up there either which is nice!


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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Fishcharger

Cool front bumper but a pain to install. You have to take the leaf spring shackles off and hope you have a small enough set of needle nose to hold the nut on the under side.

Yep that step is a royal PITA.

[Fishcharger]

Well my upgrade parts showed up so I can continue the build. There they are in my front porch as I'm stuck at work.


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[Fishcharger]

Could use some assistance here. So I've got Zero Ackerman Knuckles and steering rods. Do I need to mount the servo on the chassis to use this setup? Because as you can see the steering rod is sitting on the leaf spring and hasn't even made it down to the mounting hole on the servo horn. I'm using what I think is a pretty standard length servo horn at about 24mm.


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[OSRC]

Looks like you need a 5mm spacer on top of the knuckle. Both of mine are under the spring, though I'm using the standard knuckles.

[Fishcharger]

Gotcha. I think I'm going to just do a CMS.


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[Fishcharger]

Some of the upgrades I I went with.


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[JatoTheRipper]

I just installed the GMade Zero Ackerman kit. This is how I installed it. You want the tierod above the leaf springs. It gives you more clearance and less to hangup on.

[Fishcharger]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

I just installed the GMade Zero Ackerman kit. This is how I installed it. You want the tierod above the leaf springs. It gives you more clearance and less to hangup on.

Ah I see you installed the steering link on top of the knuckles and put the pan hard link on top of that. Got it.


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[Fishcharger]

Got the axles mounted and electronics installed.


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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by Fishcharger

Ah I see you installed the steering link on top of the knuckles and put the pan hard link on top of that. Got it.


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That's not the Panhard bar. It's the steering link from the servo.

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[Fishcharger]

Well that's it, build complete. Just working on the body now. Went with the "soft" leaf spring setup. Not sure if I'm digging how the middle spring sits on top of the main spring. Thinking of swapping them kinda like the TF2 leaf spring setup. But I want as much flex as I can get as I will mainly be crawling it. Swapping the leaf springs a viable option or no?


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[soze]

Lol, I just realized you went brushless on this rig. Quite a bit of power for it.

I just stuck a Hobbywing 1060 + 27T and called it a day. LOL

[OSRC]

What's the benefit of running a short spring on top of the main leaf? I have mine set up like a conventional leaf with the helpers under the main and it flexes great. I see that a lot and I'm not clear what kind of benefit it provides.

[Fishcharger]

Originally Posted by OSRC

What's the benefit of running a short spring on top of the main leaf? I have mine set up like a conventional leaf with the helpers under the main and it flexes great. I see that a lot and I'm not clear what kind of benefit it provides.

So in what order do you have your springs in?


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[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by OSRC

What's the benefit of running a short spring on top of the main leaf? I have mine set up like a conventional leaf with the helpers under the main and it flexes great. I see that a lot and I'm not clear what kind of benefit it provides.

I think the manual actually calls for that on the softer settings.

I did in hopes it would allow me to have soft springs while preventing some axle wrap. It did not.

[TheLetterJ]

The only benefit of a leaf above the main that I can think of is to prevent the main from bending around the u-bolt plate during droop/ forced articulation. Unless you run a military wrap (full length secondary spring that wraps around the eyelets of the main) I'd keep it there. If you want it to help reduce axle wrap, you might be better served to band the top leaf to the rest of the pack in front of the axle, a zip tie would probably work.

[Fishcharger]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

I think the manual actually calls for that on the softer settings.



I did in hopes it would allow me to have soft springs while preventing some axle wrap. It did not.

Right that what the manual says. So I followed it and ya it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.


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