Someone said it's important to make it able to run and steer before doing anything else...
I opened it up again to shim the gearbox for my new reduced gear configuration. The slop is gone, and all teeth sit nicely middle of gear mesh.
Then i started looking at steering to see where i could try to mount the servo. Somehow i seem to have gotten confused about which steering i needed to do.
Also i learned that the Indy Snorkle is the nut for an interior retainer screw and really isn't going to be worth deleting.