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Same, I am back to my record of not replacing a single plug in 5 years of running nitro. I discovered plug was not the issues. :)

Just and update on this, turns out it wasn't the glow plug. The car just still shuts down, so I have upped the idle. Weird, this engine is always given me issues.

Well, I have a bag full of used glow plugs, I know some are good, so it will be an interesting testing job. Actually, in sayin that, they all glow well, but why they dont run well in a car, beats me. I have a chance to buy cheap traxxas glow plugs at $5 each, might take the risk.

Thanks for that. The symptoms of a bad glow plug car vary a lot, for you it seems it ran find at low speed and idle, but at WOT it would completely shut off or give you a lean bog? For me, two cars would just not idle well at all, but when glow plugs were tested outside of the engine, they were...

I was quite proud of myself that in my prob 5 year nitro career, I have never replaced a single Glow Plug. Until today... I have been having issues tuning some of my nitros, and could not figure out why some were just impossible to get running right. Stripped down and cleaned carbs over and...