Ok, about a month ago a member of the other forum named gvitya found a
steering fix that involved changing two resistors with 4.7kOhm ones.
He has the picture showing which resistors to change here. (Picture belongs to gvitya)
Well, I just received a small number of 4.7kOhm surface mount resistors and i immediately tried the
mod. Ran into a problem....the resistor I bought was like twice the size of the ones RS used. No biggie, rather than solder the very ends of each resistor to the solder pad, I simply covered up both solder pads with the resistor soldered on. My second problem was the resistor on the right in that picture I linked to had a very small surface mount capacitor next to it which i accidently knocked loose so be careful when working on that one. took me 15 minutes just to put that one back on because it was so small and i dropped it on my carpet
Well, it's all done now and let me tell you, my original turning radius at low speed on carpet using AWD was about 18 to 24 inches (rough estimate) and it is now 12 to 18 inches (rough estimate). i've been able to get an 8 inch turn radius on a medium speed without the rear end coming out and wihtout flipping it. I also noticed that with my 6 cells, the
steering used to give a chatter that went away when I lightly tapped the front wheels. I have yet to see the chatter after this
mod.
There is a slight issue when using AWD, when turned to the max, the joints get very close to binding and would actually slow down. I had to dial the
steering range down a tiny bit. This would be a problem in the long run due to the stress you would put on it turning it that far but just dial down the steerign a tiny bit and you're all set.
I just like to thank gvitya for this
mod.
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