savage prob

[Savage04]

me steering on my savage is acting wired lately. i have a high torque servo.

so when i give it gas it wants to go in all different directions and i dont even turn the steering please help me


thanks

[2jz-gte]

your steering linkage may be loose, causing it to move up and down and wabble the truck around. just tighten er up.

[dirtbike]

or it could be your transmitter or receiver

[MaxxGT23]

Could be your crystals. Like already said, also check your linkage for looseness.

[kitty]

Could be one of a number of things going awry. Which servo is it? What radio system do you have installed? Do you use a receiver pack or the 4-cell holder with alkalines? Are you using the stock servo saver? How long have you had your truck?

We need answers to those questions to even start diagnosing what the problem is. =)

[dan7532]

That's funny, it sounds like what my Savage did the last time I ran it. Anything above half throttle and it glitched like mad. And this is coming from a guy that's never gotten a radio glitch in his life. The steering would jerk violently in both directions and the throttle would lunge up and down quickly. My dad thinks that the transmitter has a dirty trigger. He's going to get some contact cleaner to try and clean it, but he just went out of town for a few weeks on work. I tried the crystals from my T3, but the radio range was about 4 inches. I think it's because the radios are tuned to the antenna length and the Savage has a long one. I'm gonna put my whole T3 receiver in the Savage and just use the T3's trasmitter (a Futaba) when I get time.

My receiver pack was fresh, I put in new transmitter batteries, hadn't changed a thing on my truck since last time. I don't know what it is, but I'll find out next time I run it.

[dan7532]

OK, so I take the Transmitter and Receiver from my Stampede (a Futaba Am 2-channel) and I put it in the Savage yesterday. Indoors, the throttle glitched when the Transmitter was close to then antenna, but I think that's just because I was indoors and AM signals have long wavelengths or something. Outside, I barely got the close-glitching. It ran great for over an hour. It was cool outside (60 or lower I'm guessing) and it had rained earlier that morning, so I guess it was humid. However, my Savage 21bb that usually runs at 300 plus before it makes power was now running at 220 consistently and just ripping it up. I did have the body off; that might have changed it. But I messed with the tune too, so maybe I got something right.

Anyways, ran great for a while and then my fail-safe on the throttle/brake servo kept on kicking in and applying full brakes. Finally, it wouldn't even let me control the throttle at all. However, the steering was still working perfectly. Maybe my receiver pack is low, but it holds 1100 mah, it was freshly charged, and I've run it for longer before without it quitting out. Any suggestions? Two radios and I'm still having probems, but differing problems.

[kitty]

Dan, is your RX pack new? They usually take a few cycles before they give longer run times. It's even worse if you have any digital servos. I have a digital for steering and it gets all twitchy on me when the battery is starting to get low. What charging method do you use for your receiver pack?

[dan7532]

I charge my 1100mah NiMh pack at .7amps and peaks at 4mV/cell. I've never even had it discharge past halfway I think. I've had it for a few months now. I'm running the Hitec 5645mg servo, it's digital. I didn't have a problem before. It just started doing it. It glitches even with a freshly charged receiver pack. I heard at savage-central that the Venom failsafe can be faulty too.