Redcat Gen8 Scout II Upgrade Series - Free Steering Mod and Checking Portal Gear Grease

Here's the first thing that I wanted to adjust. The steering geometry is off out of the box, and it kind of bothered me.

Look how far out in front the servo end of the draglink is. I haven't gotten around this part yet, but sooner or later I hope it can be addressed

Here you can see that the draglink and panhard rod are not at the same angle. The panhard rod has a steeper angle than the draglink.

Part of the reason for a shallower draglink angle is due to the stock servo horn that comes with the truck

Since I didn't have anything suitable on hand, I wanted to see if there was something I could do while I waited for the parts I needed. I ended up figuring out how to get the correct angle just by moving the tie-rod below the knuckle mounting point rather than above. This allowed me to get the correct angle while using the stock servo horn.

Don't have pictures, but here's the video:

While I was at it, I took the opportunity to swap receivers. I thought the RedCat receiver would work with my FlySky GT3C since it's FlySky based, but apparently not. They must've done something to the Redcat version to make it RedCat specific. See the similarities between the RedCat and the Fly Sky Receivers?

Also took a look at my portal gears to see if they were missing grease. Lots of the earlier batches were reporting dry portal gears. Luckily my February release was all greased and ready to go.