prep, pre-run,post-run in the winter!!

[GoffeeRedCat]

Got an MT was running it in the cold the other day. Steering started to die out. Thought my battery was somewhat charged. Assuming it was dead now. Going to try again with fresh battery, but will the cold effect how fast the battery drains or make it die out of it gets to cold. It's around 30° here. Thanks

Well most likely its your servos! And I hope your running with a killer rc kill switch!!

 

[GoffeeRedCat]

Had my XB out the other day in 20 degree weather. Fired right up and ran like a raped ape. XB was eating fat!! and loved it...Deff had gloves on. You only do it once without lol..

You gotta richen up a bit!! It's like the nitrous oxide effect during cold weather, the cold air is a lot more dense there for a leaner air/fuel mixture

 

[Ryneito]

Oh i know. Ive done alot of racing in this state. Thats why i was saying eating fat. Had my high and low needles out about 1 full turn more then normal and it was taking it no prob. Went to start it today and it was super rich lol..Gotta love Colorado weather. 10 degrees this morning, 50's this afternoon back down to the 20's tonight.

 

[GoffeeRedCat]

Oh i know. Ive done alot of racing in this state. Thats why i was saying eating fat. Had my high and low needles out about 1 full turn more then normal and it was taking it no prob. Went to start it today and it was super rich lol..Gotta love Colorado weather. 10 degrees this morning, 50's this afternoon back down to the 20's tonight.

Man I'm jealous!! 50 in the afternoon!!?? Do you guys have snow?? Because here in Chicago it's cold all day and an inch of snow can't even snowboard!! Lol

 

[Ryneito]

Its been a dry winter. We had a nice little storm a couple days ago. Didnt do much though. Couple of inches and its gone already...

 

[fattyp64]

I'm in buffalo NY, I don't take my rc's out in the wet/snow because all the little things that you can't see, or don't look at start to rust. Winter time is for building.

 

[krashkrieg]

I'm in buffalo NY, I don't take my rc's out in the wet/snow because all the little things that you can't see, or don't look at start to rust. Winter time is for building.

That's no fun...If you own an air compressor, just be diligent about blowing every part of it out and then spray a little WD40 in the gears and joints and your good to go!

 

[mkl101]

Well most likely its your servos! And I hope your running with a killer rc kill switch!!

Yes I'm running with a battle switch on both my rampages. After reading so much about kill switches on here don't wan a runaway . Charged the battery up on the MT and it ran great the other day until i broke a servo steering horn. Going to check the servo savers now thanks to what I've read on the forum they might be too tight? But the XB is on the work bench ATM its starting then idles out of control no matter what i do with the carb? Going to check for air leaks and try spraying with WD40. Also had to steal the servo horn to keep the MT going. Those aluminum servo horns were hard to track down on the net. Hope everyone has good xmas. I'm going to try not to break the MT again....

 

[rampagemt]

Good luck running running your mt and you don't break anything

 

[mkl101]

Well just got done with a short lived run. Broke a front dog bone and an axle due what looks like the holding bolt for the dog bone came lose. The aftermath was the axle breaking.

You guys weren't joking when you said lock tight everything on these cars... The wife is getting upset with all the broken stuff... As am I seeing as how something has broke every run so far... Oh well lesson learned lock tight everything that might move... Wondering which dogbone is the right size.. and is it a cvd or can i use a normal dog bone and axle?

 

[rampagemt]

Stick with dogbones dude trust me I converted from cvds to dogbones

 

[MNRampage]

Just wondering...Do you guys tough it out and drive bare handed, or do you make an attempt of handling the transmitter with gloves on?

Mechanix gloves work

 

[MNRampage]

I'm in buffalo NY, I don't take my rc's out in the wet/snow because all the little things that you can't see, or don't look at start to rust. Winter time is for building.

The same here in northern mn. I use the winter months for maintainence and hop ups.

 

[REVOlutionary Rampage]

I'd say it's about 50/50 for me. I've been itching to try the old MT in the fairly deep snow we have up here in Maine now. Even though with the weather we have been having lately it has packed down pretty hard. I have been cleaning my trucks up, waterproofing, and working on my trucks here and there though especially the MT. I use gloves from Kinco, a Carhartt hat and my snowmobile jacket outside when it gets rather nippy. I could almost sleep in a snowbank.

 

[rampagemt]

Re: prep, pre-run,post-run in the winter!!

The same here in northern mn. I use the winter months for maintainence and hop ups.

+1 that's what I have been doing since I got in this hobby. Living in Wisconsin sucks lol

 

[Fearless]

Winter

Always do my projects in the winter, well projects are done so decided it was time to start to break stuff...

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[Guest]

Man I bet some paddles would be fun in the power.

 

[Fearless]

Paddles

Man I bet some paddles would be fun in the power.

They are in the way should be here by friday

 

[Guest]

Nice!

I hope you can get some video of that!

 

[krashkrieg]

Re: prep, pre-run,post-run in the winter!!

Looks like fun!