Bad servo

[jhartung]

My LHS and I finally figured out yesterday that my servo was bad after everything was acting all wonky on my rally. They also said that it's a common problem. So, as with my summit, I went with a hitec as a replace ment. Well, the LHS gave me a servo arm that doesn't fit and I can't get back there for a few days.
I ended up getting the HS-85MG from Hitec and the holes in the arm they gave me are too big and I also can't get it to fit on the servo splines. Also, I would have to cut the last two holes off of it as its too long for the tight space on the rally.
Has anyone added a hitec micro servo? If so, what arm did they end up going with?

Edit: Maybe part number DUBM6675 from servocity?

[TraxxasTuesdays]

I used the stock one that came on the 5086. I cut one side off and it worked well. There's a thread down in the Merv forums called "how to install a 5086 hitec servo" or something.


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[jhartung]

Nice. Thank you.
Looks like it just may be easier for me to bring mine back and swap it for the 5086. The arm with mine is way too small a diameter hole for the standard screws on my linkage.(same diameter as the 1/16 diff case screws)

[TraxxasTuesdays]

The holes were also too small in mine so I used one of the pointy screws that came with the servo to open the hole up a little bit. Then I just kept good pressure on the linkage screw as I turned it in to the arm. It worked out but the proper way would have been to actually tap the hole or at least drill it out with the proper bit. I was too lazy to go unlock the garage and get all of the tools to do that so I just used that screw that came with it.


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