Miss geico steering sevo

[dano1]

Anyone blow a steering servo on the geico yet?.....seems i did on flip over... Moves when powered but wont respond to commands...installed a replacement and works fine....didnt hit anything in water cept water

[Alexgar]

may have got water inside

[Rumdog]

May have stripped the gears when the rudder smacked the water.

[dasboata]

May have stripped the gears when the rudder smacked the water.

yup !! turn on the rx and see if you here the motor is running in the servo ,,,,,you can also grab the rudder and wiggle it you will feel broken gears right away

[dano1]

it does have some funk going on when its powered up like binding, no power it moves pretty freely but still feels wrong, dont think it got any water in it cause the hull has the tupperware lid and was pretty dry inside....it did some nasty skips across water a few times, first hit was rear of boat and enough to knock one battery tray out and pulled hatch lock out also. But the lid lives and floated!!!!!!!!!

[dano1]

I may need to slow her down

[dana]

is it a digital servo?

[dano1]

yapp...or was..lol

[dana]

get rid of that stupid piece of garbage servo.... problem solved

[dano1]

Think i already did dana

[dana]

lol.... nice dood

[TheShaughnessy]

mine is still running nice and smooth even after a complete submersion last sunday. That is too bad, maybe it was something to do with the impact, though i've crashed mine pretty hard a few times.

[kjohnsiii]

What is a good replacement.

[pyroM!KE]

Hitec 7955tg

[jac4412]

Guys, I've had problems with servos before... but before you deem them useless, if you aren't sure that it's a stripped gear or if it has water in it, try drying it out first... I've used the old rice bag trick and while usually when your servo is wet and ruined its gone for good... I have gotten an old servo back once (thats like once out of like 6 servos but still...). Its a good think to check!

[TheShaughnessy]

What is a good replacement.

I have this one in my 1/10 sc truck and it works good. lots of torque and it's plenty fast. The price isn't too bad either, I paid 35 plus shipping. It was originally 65 but after some waiting i got a nice little pop up with the discount pricing.

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=8768

It's a little bit more affordable then the Hi-Tec's, well depending on which one you get.

[dano1]

Theres so may different typeds of servo's a guy can buy, its all personal choices and how much money you want to spend, i used a tatic servo for a replacement in the gieco....works just fine and was setting around.

[TheShaughnessy]

Theres so may different typeds of servo's a guy can buy, its all personal choices and how much money you want to spend, i used a tatic servo for a replacement in the gieco....works just fine and was setting around.

I would have done the same thing if i had a spare.

[ron1950]

trexas has water prooof digital servos that seem to work well also.....u can pick up one for 20 bucks on the ebay.....they have people that disassemble new e-revos and sell the parts cheep...