Now I own a MT

[big ed]

Picked it up an hour ago. Ran it up and down my street to c how it ran, it was puffin out alot of smoke and had no power and I jumped it up the curb into my front yard and wheel came off. It already had gas so I checked it and it look like somebody didnt change there oil in a car for 30,000 that how black the gas was. Hopefully this isnt the start of another nightmare

 

[Lizardking]

25:1 my gas is light blue..

 

[Lizardking]

You need to locktite the wheel nuts or do what I did and buy the HPI nuts.

 

[kryptonite]

the wheel came off couse they don't have knurled ends like the baja's. you can use "blue" loc-tite or simply get some darksoul,cat-5, or hpi wheel nuts. works a charm. the smoke meens nothing. could simply be the type of oil or that its been in the tank too long.. not much too that.. it may appear to run kinda slower. but remember. it 4wd and those mt tires are super heavy. put better tires on that thing and you will smoke all 4. sounds like your setting your self up for a nightmare. pretty basic stuff, thought i was going to get some pics? . all the info you need to wake up from your nightmare is here on the forum.


-upgrade your shocks, hpi hd's


-ditch the stock shell


-pull the cinder blocks out and you will run faster(prolines and rockstars)


-a ported 27.2 will scream!! not enough power to break parts but enough power to crank out some rpm's


-black side mount dom,


with some gearing a 5year old will do laps around that 5t.

 

[kryptonite]

25:1 my gas is light blue..

i run 38:1. my gas is like piss water


rings cost $8 every 5 gallons

 

[mooman007uk]

before you run it you should do all the fixes it needs like green loctite all the dogbone pins, centre all the dogbones with 1/2 a decidamp earplug in each cup, ditch the stock th/br servo...check out some of the threads on what you should do.


to get it to run better pull off the long exhaust stinger and pull the guts out of the can and then tune the carb...and get some good gas and oil.


If you run these straight out the box things will go wrong in a hurry

 

[ZielkeRacing]

25:1 my gas is light blue..

Thats what I run also, its good for break in too. Rich is good on your first tank. The wheel nunts need to be locktite or 5g nuts or even a nut with an o ring ar a knurled back side

 

[ZielkeRacing]

i run 38:1. my gas is like piss water
rings cost $8 every 5 gallons

You are gonna kill the local lemonade stands!!

 

[Lizardking]

Speaking of tire..not to thread jack. But what are some good rim/tire combos that mount on the 22mm hub?

 

[kryptonite]

Speaking of tire..not to thread jack. But what are some good rim/tire combos that mount on the 22mm hub?

none..you can get baja adaptors or extended adaptors and run any of the wide variaty of tires for that

 

[Sprint 77]

I run 50:1 and have over 10 gallons on one motor no ring changes.

 

[Lizardking]

You mean these http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXTWT1&P=Z


Those are direct fit?

 

[kryptonite]

You mean these http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXTWT1&P=Z
Those are direct fit?

yup. but those don't come with nuts. still stuck with the crappy redcats


these come with 4 rears and darksoul nuts


http://www.rampagehopups.com/product.sc?categoryId=5&productId=342


these are darksoul extended ones for wider stance. with nuts


http://www.rampagehopups.com/product.sc?categoryId=5&productId=11

 

[Lizardking]

Cool, I found them on ebay for 20 bucks for all four. I already have the nuts.

 

[kryptonite]

i think when i blow out my tt rims i will go with the extender from darksoul.. hopefully not any time soon

 

[Lizardking]

I hear that..

 

[big ed]

I got this slightly used. everthing was done by previous owner. I was just venting a little, I have a 5t and run 32:1 in it. I am definitly puting the upgrades and dumping the sludge out of the tank. I just wanted to run it to make sure it wasnt broke. There is alot I don't know about this rampage so thanks for all the advice.