AR60 servo mount for a Hitec 7980?

[Norton]

As the title states, I was wondering if any of the vendors make a larger steering mount for a Hitec 7980 on a AR60 axle. I'll make one if needed and have read that with some grinding you can get it to fit in the regular mount.
I was just wondering what options are out there.

Thanks, Norton.

[filotr14lsdude]

The dlux ultra 4 truss can be modded by drilling one hole and moving a stand off, allows a 7980 to be mounted with no mods to servo.

[cmbscx10]

Norton,
I made my own for my Hitec 8380TH and it was relatively easy. I moved the holes farther back so the servo arm would be more inline with the knuckles, extended the whole plate by 4mm and used RCBros standoffs instead of plastic.

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[meatmonkey]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the D-lux truss not lend it self to uptravel in a Wraith chassis?

I had to make a mount out of 1/8" steel welded together to shoe-horn a 7980 into my Wraith because I couldn't find a suitable way to make the stock mount work. Moved the servo back until the back of the horn clears the truss by less than 1mm and the servo is flipped from stock so the output shaft is on the right side.

I had to trim quite a bit off of the chassis rails and crossmember area to keep full uptravel. Truth is, during full articulation followed by full bump there is still some minor servo mounting ear to side chassis rail contact. But since I was tearing up regular 1/10 servos at an alarming rate (and expense), that is the compromise I've chose to live with.

[68_f100]

I fit my 7990 into a VP cms mount. Doesn't help you much unless you decide to go that route