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Hey guys, do you read this ad the same as I do?

Inner diameter is 4mm
Total width 5.4mm
Length 8.1mm 6mm



Thanks!

Aha! 0.7 is the pitch, not the wall diameter.
That may open some possibilities!

Altough I am thinking about more radical dremeling and putting on the original GPM steering mounts :


Screwed down from beneath the chassis...

After some brainstorming and impatience (not having 2K glue, thinner or helicoils in stock) I went for the low tech approach.
Filling up the holes with CA glue, put in a used king pin and make sure it's straight, let dry and take out the screw...
Seems to be a temporary solution that works quite well.
I'll update later with something prettier though.

M4 helicoils ordered on eBay. Let's see if I can make something more technically acceptable.

Not an easy fix but I hope I can get it done...
I need to take quite a bit of "flesh" from the holes for them to fit.

To be continued...

Btw - I already murdered two of them.

One side glued in and the other one drying - looks like it's holding up.

Yes, it works! Steering parts refitted :

Edou wrote:

Yes, it works! Steering parts refitted :

Looking good

Thanks, I'm quite happy with the end result. Feels solid. But most of all - slop free!
Only wiggle room that's left comes from the servo itself...
Just gotta score a nice blue servo horn some time to top it off.



One more tech detail - the right steering arm (left for the viewer) barely has any clearance on top.
It's moving smoothly now but I've assembled it a bit too high in the past, as can bee seen by the slight scuff marks :


That is why the ball ends cannot stick out and I put on some blue spacers :


Looks like it was meant to be like that.

One more update coming - the fitting of the undercowl...

One more after this one, that is...
I think it could be justified to call this straight :

Super work there, looks like it was made that way originally
You could have fooled me anyways

Cheers, Bram