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How do you check if a servo is going bad? It will turn great to the right, but will barely move to the left. Took horn off and same issue.

Thanks for input

Sounds like one of the "axle" (from one of the gear assemblies inside) holes are elongating. Happened to me a while back on a cheap servo that didn't reinforce those plastic areas with some kind of bushing.

I use to burn up servos all the time in my first EMaxx truck that I converted to brushless 6,7 years ago. And I was killing them 2 at a time. I fixed the issue by going with higher end servos.
Not sure what rc your having your servo issues with.
If I knew I'd give you a couple recommendations.

Here's a few things I look for in a servo when I buy one:
-1) More torque then I'll ever need.
-2) Coreless motor.
-3) Steel or titanium gears.

I stopped having servo issues when I dropped a hitec 7995 servo in my truck.

You also want to make sure you have your endpoints set correctly and there's no binding in your steering linkage.
If you have a decent transmitter (not an RTR radio) you should be able to set up your endpoints pretty easily. I think not having my endpoints set properly was why I kept killing servos in my EMaxx.

Justin

I will double check, but I think it is a Hitec high torque servo. That's usually all I use.