Slash steering slop

There was a cool new thread on the Traxxas forums a week ago that piqued my interest.  Those of you who have a Slash 4x4 have noticed the excessive steering slop.  New plastics help, but most of the slop comes from the shoulder screws in the C-blocks and the steering linkage, and a smart guy on the forums had a fix.

Here’s the thread:

https://traxxas.com/forums/showthread.php?9056238-Steering-slop-reduction-mod

I took it a bit further and expanded on his ideas.  The main mod is to use 3x6x2.5 bearings everywhere there are shoulder screws, and then replace the shoulder screw with an M3 screw.  For the steering linkage, I’m using flanged 3x6x2.5 bearings I got from Avid RC, and some 3x5x4mm Serpent spacers to take up the excess space.

For the C-hubs I’m using the same flanged bearings with an additional 3x6x2.5 bearing in the bottom and a 3x5x2mm spacer on the top.

Check out the thread for more pictures and a more detailed description of the mod.  Overall, I’d say this cut out about 80% of the excess steering slop I had and cost less than $20 in parts!