Newbie Crawler!

[Ducatikid]

Hi guys, Happy New Year! Santa decided I was good this year and left a Vaterra Ascender under the Christmas tree. It's my first crawler and I have a long way to go after looking at some of the builds on here! It's fitted with Castle Creations Sidewinder 3 ESC, HPI Saturn 55t and Savox SW-0231MG steering servo. One issue I did find is that the front axle seems to be positioned more to the left causing the right shock to sit against the chassis. Any advice is more than welcome. Lee

 

[onebullet]

i think you used the wrong tags for your picture, here is a working one



some pictures with the body off of the offending area would help figure it out.

Welcome to the forum"thumbsup"

 

[Ducatikid]

Thank you onebullet, i'm not he sharpest PC user! I have taken a photo of the front end which seems to be pushing the axle to the left by approx. 7-10mm. I added a couple of spacers to the Panhard bar to bring it back in line but have taken them off for the photo. Thanks, Lee

 

[Itali83]

The pan hard bar either has the wrong bar or spacer in it, causing it to be too short and offset the axle to one side.

 

[Oh How Original]

Also don't get that servo wet, they sell them as waterproof but I busted 3 in a row by getting them wet!
Welcome to the forum!

 

[Solitaire]

Panhard AND drag link are too short.

 

[Ducatikid]

Thanks for the information guys. I'll have a look into tomorrow. Cheers, Lee.