Car pulls to one direction

[HACHI-RYOKU]

Well, I recently suped up a motorworks car. Dual-celled it and fet modded it. Now it pulls to the right viciously. I can normally fix this, but it’s a little different this time. If I push the car with my hand I notice that the front wheels just turn on thier own. If I put more pressure on the front, then it just goes straight. But if I push it from the back or put pressure on the back, then the wheels turn left. This is rather annoying.

I know real cars are set up to overcome this problem, but I’m not positive on all the facts. Real cars would in fact do the same thing if it weren’t for certain engineering concepts, wich are used in larger scale R/C’s as well. Anybody have any good info on this?

[micro_Amps]

Checked you havent just got stuff wrapped around one of the front axels?
:)uA

[Admin]

im having the exact same problem with my basically stock BCG. when i drive or push it forward it drives right and when i push backwards it turns in the opposite direction. i tried using a stiffer steering center spring but that didnt do much.

[HACHI-RYOKU]

UA, the mechanics of the steering are clean. I’ve taken it completely apart and put it back together again. No hair or anything. I found another motorworks car that does the same thing. I haven’t suped the second one up yet, and it doesn’t do it while still being a single cell. I think it’s a weight thing. I have other motor works cars that don’t do this. It seems to be a glich in just those two cars.

86, it doesn’t really happen while going backwards, but rather when I go forward while putting pressure on the back, or just letting it accelerate normaly. Although, you have a point. I don’t think I have any cars that go straight while going backwards, unless they are a slow stock car. In fact, I’ve found that if I get it to go straight while going in reverse, then it wont go straight while going forward. No real problem though because I want to go forward anyways.

Welcome to the forum 86.

[Admin]

thanks bro. i got the trueno collector set in japan a few years back and just dusted it off this week. feels great to be getting back into this thing. where in japan are you located? my moms family is all living in nagoya.

[ph2t]

Hachi, the “suspension” on the front end can cause this. try and use a stiffer suspension plate on top to negate any vertical movement in the front wheel knuckles. this might help.

I’ve noticed putting springs in the front end CAN help BUT if not matched well the problem you describe happens.

good luck man,

ph2t.

[HACHI-RYOKU]

Makes sense. Thanx P! I’ll try it.

[Admin]

still didnt fix it for me 🙁

[betty.k]

problem could be the rear end. does the left rear wheel sit lower than the right? is the right turning circle tighter than the left?:8ball:

[HACHI-RYOKU]

Hey 86. I was in Okinawa. I just moved back to the states.

The plastic bar-piece that moves right and left sometimes gets hung up on something. I’ll take a good small metal file and file all over the steering compartment to give that bar a little more room. That sometimes fixes it. It may also be the wheels/tires. If the chassis is warped in the slightest, then you’ll get a pull in one direction. A wheel might have a piece of hair caught in the axle. Metal flakes may have built up on one side. There are really a lot of things that may be causing the car to pull in one direction. It just take patience and fiddling. Some cars I will switch the whole steering assembly with another car and then it works fine in both cars. Mini steering systems can be touchy.

Is it a stock car? Did you mod it at all?

[Admin]

well factory mods, such as tires and upgraded sway bar thing. it actually started when i put in a 3.0 motor. but i already ordered another one for 15 bucks, so i guess il play around with that and see if i can find the prob by switching parts and isolating the problem.

[z-beam]

another way this could happen is if the rear axles been a bit damadged, i noticed on one of my old bcg teal gears one of the wheels is loose on the axle so no power comes through.

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