trouble starting engine

[Guantanamo Joe]

OK... so here it is. Yesterday I installed a killer bee and a new radio/receiver. Now I am having issues getting the DR to start. After about 4 minutes of trying I can get it going, but it used to be a 2 pull engine. Can anyone think of what I might have done replacing these two parts that would cause this?


Thanks,


Aaron

 

[Deluge]

Did you move the coil at all when you installed the kill switch? If you did, try resetting the coil gap with a business card and see if that helps. Is the spark plug wire secure? Are the kill switch wires secure?

 

[Guantanamo Joe]

When I re-secured the coil, I did use a business card as instructed in the killer bee instructions. I am thinking that the problem is that once again, I am an RC idiot. After taking the cover off my receiver/battery box, I turned on/off the electronic switch on the truck and the remote several times- in different sequences- trying to figure out how to activate/deactivate the killer bee. So apparantly the Killer Bee has to be turned on usint the channel 3 button approximately 5 seconds after I turn on the switch for the truck. Then after it resets itself, the green light comes on. I am going to try all this in the morning because I believe my neighbors would kill me if I went out right now to turn it on.

If this does not work, I will definately re-adjust the coil again- but I think I could not get her started because I was not sequencing my electronics right.

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Aaron

 

[Deluge]

Weird. Let us know how it goes.

 

[Guantanamo Joe]

Ok... so that was it. I did not realize that I had to "turn on" the killer bee after turning on the receiver and remote. So, by the time I had pulled 40 times and re-primed, choked, un-choked, given throttle and everything else that I could think of, the engine would be flooded anyway by the time I hit the channel 3 switch.

So- all that to say this- my DR is a 2(ish) pull start again )

 

[Deluge]

Lol. Glad you got it sorted.

 

[GTS 666]

+1 glad you got it sorted out small things can make it annoying.

 

[the1320god]

If your radio will let you, you can reverse the third channel so that you don't have to push it when you turn on the on/off switch on the car. That's what I did.