hato thread

anyoen have any trouble with the steerign servo with a jato? i baught a jato off of ebay and idk if it is the batterys or what but the steering is really effed up. i asked the guy he sais he had no idea?.

You really need to be more specific than "effed up." That tells us absolutely nothing.

go get a new steering servo off of towerhobbies install it and see if that is what it is

the sterring is a little slow when u turn it goes a little bit then pauses then goes the rest of the way. that more spacific "yoster"

Yes, thanks. Most likely you stripped a gear in the servo. Instead of purchasing an entire new unit, just pickup a replacement gear set for your servo (should be about 5 bucks). Pull the servo apart, install the new gears, and your set.

alright thanks will try. you guys got jatos too? how ya liek em

and i ate how the reciever is mounted in the back like that. has anyone tryed mountin the reciever box more in the front liek toward the steerin servo? looks like it could be done

love my jato, fast as hell and very durable. Stock tires not good for on road, were bologna skins by the time the break in was done.

What? the reciever isnt mounted in the back...

I have a jato with new 3.3 in it and it rocks! I don't get what you mean by receiver mounted in back? Stock location for it is the box in front of the engine on the left side of fuel tank. As for your servo, change batteries if using aa still, charge it if using 5 cell pack, if it is moving slow it is usually low batteries. My throttle servo crapped out on mine after I ran it in snow and ice without enough waterproofing, so replaced it with futaba S3003 I had laying around. Otherwise it has been very very durable and now with 3.3, VERY fast indeed! Also tried battery pack both rear and front location and so far prefer back location. I get better traction this way and the rear end doesn't get so squirrely around corners. As for strength, yesterday went to a empty park and set up a ramp about 18" high and jumped abou 8 tanks of fuel on pavement at pretty high speeds and many landings sucked pretty bad and only damage was body scuffing and ground down body mount posts This thing rocks!

nitroo runner- i messed up i meant the batterys for the reciever. sorry about that. but has anyone herd of that box beign mounted in the front.

u can put them in the middle of tha car...there is a compartment there for stick type cells...u cant fit the aa pack in there or a hump pack tho.

my Jato is fully tricked out and will be up for sale as soon as i recieve the rest of the upgrade parts from HK.
it has these parts from GPM racing all in blue alloy

front and rear A arms
front and rear knuckles
front c hubs
rear bulkhead
front and rear shock towers
front body post mount
front and rear shocks
fuel tank cap
brake links
graphite brake pads
vented steel disk brake
titanium rear swing shafts
lightweight 3mm chassis
steering links

also has

pullstart
Crowd pleazer body sprayed black and original shell in red
4x pro-line trac a gators on agitator rims, 4x pro line speed paws on traxxas rims, original wheels
hardened steel main gear and clutch bell
stainless steel hex set throught the entire truck
large 3 racing engine cooling head (a million times better)
motor saver air filter
venom temp fail safe
tonnes of spares, including some revo shocks(much better than stock jato ones), original shocks, ball ends, all stock plastic parts
spare servos
original electric start with spare blue leads for glow plugs
spare original traxxas plugs
spare stainless steel disk brake plate plus new original one
plus a few more spares!

this thing goes like a rocket and stops so much better than stock!

will sell in the UK only when the rest of the parts are fitted as im after getting a Kyosho buggy for racing.

alright thanks. that truck of yours sounds kick as*

alright thanks. that truck of yours sounds kick as*

it is...i'll post some pics when the 5 remaining parts arrive...i really want a buggy now :S

how much are you going to sell the jato for?

probably around the £380/400 mark as its all new parts and the originals have never been used!

yea i riped the steerign servo out. and that was the problem. gears are striped. seems like alont of people have this problem