I have one of the OEM - Regular bit-chars and am now having trouble with the steering. I've read a billion posts here and elsewhere about it but I just can't seem to get it cleaned up. When I originally got the car, the steering was ok, not good, not bad. I opened it up and went to work and played a bit with the steering spring and the steering was well nigh perfect upon reassembly. It ran great for a while. Then I tried to do the spring suspension mod and the poor thing hasn't been the same since. I've played with the steering spring many times since and it never seems to have ANY affect. The symptoms are VERY hard right turns (doughnuts automatically unless a little left steering is applied) and weak left turns.
I don't think the steering spring is the problem in this case. I took the spring out and held the car off the ground and played with the left and right controls. It seems the magnet assembly does not go the same distance to either side. So when I hold the right control, the assembly moves so far, but with the left control held it doesn't move quite so far. I'm wondering if this is due to uneven strengths in the electromagnets? The other possibility that occured to me is that the magnet assembly is riding up on the wheel knuckles unevenly when turning each direction.
Has anyone experienced this? I'm at my wits end after having tinkered for many hours to no avail. On a side note, when poring over these forums looking for answers I got interested in Mini-Z's and Mini-X's and have posted a question on the Mini-X forum asking for advice moving into a more serious RC domain.
Thanks in advance for any advice/help.
link to my Mini-X post
Steering issue
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