Why do people like pull start?

[savage24x]

I get that you can feel when it doesn't want to start or when it's too rich/lean, but I keep ripping them even with light tugs. Trust me, I'm not that strong. I get exhausted tugging all fricken day. I switched to roto and ez start today. I'm so much happier and its so much easier. Why do people suffer through the pain and agony of 100 pulls to get an engine started? 2-3 seconds of holding a button can get it started instead. I can see a pull start as backup, not main.

 

[Racer 1966]

If you're tuned well,1-2 pulls is all you need. That being said,I'm lazy and use a roto start

 

[Taint3dOne]

Yep, on my slightly tired original T-MAXX 2.5, when tuned i only need 2-3 pulls to start it. If it doesn't start i know something isn't right. Plus it is one less thing to carry around.

 

[Alexander_0_1]

I'm a pull start guy, I only have so many pockets and none of them can carry a damn roto start, also I broke my only one while running to flip over one of the savages it fell out and landed on a stone/pebble.....about the size of a standard laptop, and went smash.

I'm just used to it, the lawn mower that I use for the spot in between the bushes and the fence is pull start, and a long time ago my job involved me using a chain saw, most of the day, so yay pull starts!

 

[Cornholio]

I've always used pull starts and as long as you have a good tune the vehicle will start right up.

 

[HPI-Killer]

I'm a pull guy also. A couple things can be detirmed woth a pull. One, you can feel the compression in your block. Two, you can feel a flooded engine and three, you get less wear n tear with a pull compared to a roto just turnin ur block excessivly. And four, I dont enjoy toting around a roto start, keys, glow plug ignitor, smokes, ecig, cell phone, change lol and so on and so forth...

 

[Nitro Nerd]

As others have noted....when performed correctly, I find it the easiest method. To say it takes 100 pulls on a pull-start and 2-3 seconds on an "ez-start" is just not true. If an engine doesn't start--it doesn't start. Meaning that no one has ever pulled 100 times on an engine, and then (without changing anything) put an "ez start" on it and it fired up in two seconds. Take it for how you will, but you are doing something wrong if you cannot start it with a pull-start.

 

[savage24x]

As others have noted....when performed correctly, I find it the easiest method. To say it takes 100 pulls on a pull-start and 2-3 seconds on an "ez-start" is just not true. If an engine doesn't start--it doesn't start. Meaning that no one has ever pulled 100 times on an engine, and then (without changing anything) put an "ez start" on it and it fired up in two seconds. Take it for how you will, but you are doing something wrong if you cannot start it with a pull-start.

I guess I'm not pulling it hard enough? I can tune an engine no problem. But pull-starts? Hah. No way will it start. One pull on my lawn mower, but not my t-MAXX. I can tug on it forever and it won't start. I threw an ez-start on it and it starts in 2-5 seconds from a cold-start, no problem.

 

[Sixtysixdeuce]

I'm a pull guy also. A couple things can be detirmed woth a pull. One, you can feel the compression in your block. Two, you can feel a flooded engine and three, you get less wear n tear with a pull compared to a roto just turnin your block excessivly. And four, I don't enjoy toting around a roto start, keys, glow plug ignitor, smokes, ecig, cell phone, change lol and so on and so forth...

Pretty much sums it up. I don't like lugging around a start box, roto start tool or drill, and I'd rather break a pull start cord than a connecting rod.

Only to of my kits are non-PS, because the engines aren't offered with PS. The OS .12 TZ in my GT2 is starter box only, and the NOVA .28-7RT in my 801XT is rotostart.