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went to break my maxx in........hooked up the ez start....heard a buzzz.........then nada zip zilch................shoot me please......called traxxas..........guy told me that sometimes the engines come tight.......had me turing some silver disc with little teeh......kinda right behind the pipe.......still nothing.......help meeeeeeee pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....I'm a newbie
 
The silver disk with teeth is the flywheel. This is what the clutch shoes are attached to and him telling you to turn it by hand is his way of trying to get you to overcome the "tightness" of the compression stroke.

Try loosening your glo plug about 1/4 turn. And then give the EZ start a try. The turn on the glo plug will allow some of the air to escape the cylinder of the engine thus easing that compression stroke a little bit.

If you still have a buzz and then nothing, you might check to make sure that the electric motor that makes the EZ start is all the way seated in its case and tightened down. This will ensure that the gear on the end of that motor is turning the rest of the EZ start gears in the case.

The only other thing that I can think of is specific to the new EZ start wand. It has "sensors" that tell it when it thinks an engine is flooded and so forth. Basically a torque sensor that uses that to say the engine is vapor locked or flooded. There is no way to bypass that without taking the wand apart and removing that sensor. So that leaves the checking for a flooded engine. Turn the truck up on its side so that the fuel in the engine can leave via the exhaust port and let it run out the pipe....or remove the glo plug and dump any excess fuel out of that hole. Then replace the glo plug and give it another go.

Just remember one thing, the break in is very very important to your engine...BUT it is also the most frustrating part of getting your RC up and running. You want it to go, and you want it to go NOW...that must be tempered with some patience at this time.

Let me know if this helps.
 
ok i think i see...........well ill try all that tomorrow..........this flywheel....i was turning it wiith a screwdriver..........is that cool....the traxxas guy said it was .......but if shhh breaks they get paid.....whats the deal?
 
By using a screwdriver, I take it you were using the tip of a flat head against the teeth and pushing the flywheel around? That is fine. You can't really do much more than scratch it or "crush" the teeth. Either way the damage is more cosmetic than anything else as the teeth are for gripping when you need to. The real work of the flywheel is hidden from view beneath that black looking thing with the gear on the front (that is the clutch bell).
 
ok last question......when the truck was on the smoooooooooth asphalt.....i turned the wheel on the controller and the wheels hardly went anywhere........but when i lifted the truck the went completely sise 2 side..................weak servos????????
 
Yup...the stock steering servo on the T-Maxx is garbage for steering. It will work fine for the truck when it is moving, but eventually that too will start to suck. My recommendation is to get yourself a good quality upgraded servo. HiTec seems to be the favorite for many on this site. The 645MG or its digital big brother the 5645MG seem to be the current front runners. I use the digital version which runs about $60. The non digital is in the $30-40 price range. But there are a number of quality servo makers out there. You just need to look for a high torque servo that will fit your tray and receiver.

Here's a link to HiTec's servo page for you:LOOK HERE

Here's Tower Hobbies links on the 645MG:
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXUZ90&P=M

and the 5645MG:
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXUZ80&P=0
 
No problem.

If you do get a better steering servo, the stock steering servo is great for replacing the stock throttle servo with. The relative strengths on the servos that come stock are (from strongest to weakest) the steering servo, the throttle servo and the reversing servo.

When I upgraded my steering servo, I replaced the stock throttle servo with the stock steering servo and bagged the stock throttle servo as a back up.
 
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