If the head is stripped, you can cut a slot in the head with a Dremmel tool and a cutoff wheel. Then you can use a standard flat head screwdriver to get them out.
There's really only a few reasons a gear will strip.
Mesh
messed up teeth
dirt or little rocks up in the gears.
I always set my mesh with the first gear spur removed, that way I always get my second gear mesh just right and then install the first gear spur.
I was going through 2nd...
A couple things I've learned:
1. There's ALWAYS someone faster than you.
2. Don't try to race that guy, you'll just end up crashing. Maybe both of you. (he wont like that)
3. For off road racing, you don't have to have the fastest truck to win the race. Crash less than everyone else and...
Thanks guys. I actually won a best body contest today with it. LOL
The lights are little red and blue led flashy trinkets I got from a trade show in Las Vegas a few years back. They are replicas of a companies line of USB drives designed to attract people to their booth. Seems a couple of...
Alright buddy, PULL IT OVER!
Let me see your License, Registration, and Proof of Insurance....:opps:
Just finished this body last night. Gonna have some fun at the track today..
That pipe is actually tuned for On-Road applications where you want more high end speed. You want to get an Off-Road pipe thats tuned for more low end power. Typically, an Off-Road pipe will have more taper from the small end to the wide part. An On-Road pipe will have less taper or none at...
The Spektrum system is great. The DX3 is lacking some important features that some other radios have but as fas as the Spektrum system itself, It's the greatest thing since peanut butter. Of all the things I like, the fact that I NEVER have to ask "what channel are you on?" I never have...
Sometimes these things happen. O-Well. I get the feeling that this engine was not broken in properly. I never could get it to idle right anyway but it ran great while it lasted!
Does anybody know if there is any differece in the block or the mounting holes between a .21 and a .27? I...
Yeah, try to lean the low end needle a bit. Sounds like it's loading up and when you hit the gas it just chokes itself with too much fuel.
If, on the other hand, it revs up then cuts out, you might be too lean on the high speed needle.