Traxxas T-Maxx 3.3 won't Start

[Maverick684]

I m sure you guys have seen this a thousand times. Here goes, had the truck almost a year it has been broken in. Fired up the other day made a bunch of high speed passes and shut her down to tweak suspension. Tried to fire up and truck wouldn't start. So far I have done the following: Cleaned and removed the OWB, Replaced the glow plug, Cleaned the carb, changed fuel and everything else I could think of. Only problem I still have is when I put a new glow plug in and hold it against the block the filament never glows bright orange. The light on the EZ start controller is green but it never glows orange when out of the truck. Once I put it in the truck it acts like it's just about to start but never does even if I feather the throttle. Please help it's driving me crazy

 

[Nitro4910]

10 to 1 you have a wire issue.

Check the yellow wire is properly secured to the mount & check the blue wire for damage & look down into the
connector on the truck, the pins can get pushed far enough down that they no longer make contact.

Push the wires up into the connector to make sure the pins are all the way up.

You can also use a separate glow ignighter.

 

[Maverick684]

Ok will do that's where I was thinking it was, any possibility it could be the hand-held part of the EZ-start?

 

[EXTREME1]

go with glow ignitor.pull start.

 

[Maverick684]

Yeah I am about tired of screwing with the damn EZ start stuff.

 

[EXTREME1]

spend the $40 and you'll be glad.

 

[Maverick684]

Ok finally got it up and running. It was the handheld part of the EZ start. Guess something on the circuit board was bad, causing the glow plug to be on but it wasn't heating the plug. Purchased a new one for 15 bucks, truck started right up no problems.

 

[hotrodrob]

+1 on pull start and igniter,so much less to go wrong,and its lighter.