Hospital Hop...how to stop it?

[InspGadgt]

#3 - You DO have a proper strut - Asking Horizon to put on a "proper strut" to a model being sold successfully "as is" for the last ten years or so (thousands sold) may not get you the response you're looking for.......

Mainly I'm just asking for the one that was supposed to be sold with the boat as I mistakenly thought I didn't already have it.

#5 - Regardless of how you adjust height/ angle (a tad too much height/angle and you'll have the rear hopping up and down - (I know this with knowingness.) and you WON'T cure the front sponson "hospital hop". For more than stock performance ONLY reducing the sponson AoA will get this done. TrustMe ! Tacking on aero goodies might sound good but...

I'll definitely try the AoA and the air damn mod you have pictured. The aero mod I got from OSE is only a part of the testing to see what works. After more than 20 years of racing on-road RC I know not to do to many changes at once or you can't tell what is really working and what did not.

Lapping the brass bushing with a drill comes AFTER it's removed and can be inserted reasonably easy. To get yours out if it's that tight you might heat the stuffing tube (put a wet rag around the tube where it enters the hull to prevent heat transfer damage) and grab the end in vice grips. You might need to sacrifice the end but a replacement brass bushing doesn't cost much.

OR much easier and will allow less stressful strut angle adjustment :

Cut stuffing tube so that only 1/4" or so enters the strut and press in one at the rear and one right after where the stuffing tube ends.

https://www.offshoreelectrics.com/pr...od=oct-oc6ltsb

That looks like a much easier fix...is that a common mod done on this boat?