Hmm...
I actually tried your suggestion, but as my luck would have it, the servo is setup the wrong way round in the front of the truck as it is at the moment, so left is right and viceversa- God wants me to crash into walls I swear...
Anyway, I have got the truck running after charging the sucky 2100mah (actually better than I thought

) nicd charged and the esc programmed on the second attempt; you can really feel the power of the twin 27t 540 motors. Not.
The Candyman is finishing off my extended suspsension rods, leaving me to just wait for my orders to turn up:-
rubber sealed bearings
uber big rod ends
3.3 spec drive shafts and output couplers to make them into center propshafts
some thundertech txt-1 > emaxx 14mm hex adapters/ wideners. Now thats a project in itself, which will no doubt horrify a few people; Im adding 3 inches of track width to the truck by making some superduper long barrel nuts & 2 wheel wideners on each stubaxle- those poor 5x10x4 bearings wont know what hit them...
More later.