Ounds like the blue wire is bad as stated above and also that your battery in your starter wand is bad, the one way bearing is bad or the starter motor is bad. If you can get you hands on another battery and replace the blue wire then you could determine mainly if anything else is the problem. When A buddy of mine picked up his traxxas the guy made sure to sell him extra blue wires to go with it...really cheap and it takes the fuss out of the glow ignitor. Me i would rather use pull start. But he was glad he did after a few tanks and roll overs boom he had to replace it. He also upgraded the battery in the wand because the one he got with it was junk. I wouldnt use any other type of wire although you could. But you would have to make sure that it has a high melting point its the right gauge and you can find the right connectors. Also in the right or wrong running conditions like wet track days or what not you might want to consider the dust boots as well. So unless you have all that laying around might be better to do as suggested in the previous posts or take a trip to you LHS and pick up some extra blue wires.
