smith1090t
RC Newbie
Hello everyone!
I've been curious about rc's for a few years now, and I love working on cars, so today when I saw a ready to run nitro rc for only $120 shipped on eBay, I jumped on it. I have never had any "real" RC's, only radioscrap stuff, and that's 10 years ago. I am familiar with most if not all of the basics with owning and running one of these nitro rc's, but I can say I've never even touched one or saw one with my own eyes yet (I won't have mine for at least another week).
I bought some 20% nitro fuel, some after run oil, a new glow plug and glow plug wrench, and one of those cheap little fail-safe things. The truck I purchased was listed as having been received with a lot of other stuff, but it was briefly tested and fires right up after priming, with the included ez start wand thing.
I guess I currently have a few questions. Firstly, I know this truck is awfully old, can I still get normal parts for it? One part I really need is a new body, it currently has a non original, beat to death old chevy body. I have seen bodies that are listed as being for the newer rustler nitro with the 2.5 engine, but I'm not sure they'll fit. Beyond that I'd love to get a cheap proline body of an actual truck (perhaps a bronco) and put it on, and while I'm okay with modding, I need to know if just buying any old 1/10 body will be close enough to working. The listing also said that one of the shocks felt like it needed more oil, this is one area of RC's that I don't know much about. I suppose I'd need to replace the oil in all of the shocks as I'm not sure what oil is in them now. I also don't know what weight of oil I should use, and if there's anything else I need to buy to fix this shock, or if I need to buy anything else in general.
I have heard that the pull starts are better than the ez starts, so I'll try the ez start and in the future I may put in a pull start.
My main reason for buying this truck specifically was that It was ready to run and with everything else I need to use it the day it arrives, I only spent a total of $175 and that's good because I'm honestly not sure if I'll like RC's. I live on a highway by nobody else and I don't know anyone who might be interested in rc's so my only usage of this rc would be bashing it around the yard and driveway by myself. I do however know I'll love maintaining and upgrading this truck though, I love working on stuff!
Hopefully I can get some answers to those questions, and feel free to post any suggestions or comments.
Thanks in advance!
I've been curious about rc's for a few years now, and I love working on cars, so today when I saw a ready to run nitro rc for only $120 shipped on eBay, I jumped on it. I have never had any "real" RC's, only radioscrap stuff, and that's 10 years ago. I am familiar with most if not all of the basics with owning and running one of these nitro rc's, but I can say I've never even touched one or saw one with my own eyes yet (I won't have mine for at least another week).
I bought some 20% nitro fuel, some after run oil, a new glow plug and glow plug wrench, and one of those cheap little fail-safe things. The truck I purchased was listed as having been received with a lot of other stuff, but it was briefly tested and fires right up after priming, with the included ez start wand thing.
I guess I currently have a few questions. Firstly, I know this truck is awfully old, can I still get normal parts for it? One part I really need is a new body, it currently has a non original, beat to death old chevy body. I have seen bodies that are listed as being for the newer rustler nitro with the 2.5 engine, but I'm not sure they'll fit. Beyond that I'd love to get a cheap proline body of an actual truck (perhaps a bronco) and put it on, and while I'm okay with modding, I need to know if just buying any old 1/10 body will be close enough to working. The listing also said that one of the shocks felt like it needed more oil, this is one area of RC's that I don't know much about. I suppose I'd need to replace the oil in all of the shocks as I'm not sure what oil is in them now. I also don't know what weight of oil I should use, and if there's anything else I need to buy to fix this shock, or if I need to buy anything else in general.
I have heard that the pull starts are better than the ez starts, so I'll try the ez start and in the future I may put in a pull start.
My main reason for buying this truck specifically was that It was ready to run and with everything else I need to use it the day it arrives, I only spent a total of $175 and that's good because I'm honestly not sure if I'll like RC's. I live on a highway by nobody else and I don't know anyone who might be interested in rc's so my only usage of this rc would be bashing it around the yard and driveway by myself. I do however know I'll love maintaining and upgrading this truck though, I love working on stuff!
Hopefully I can get some answers to those questions, and feel free to post any suggestions or comments.
Thanks in advance!