After some research and lookin them over a bit, I decided I was going to buy a Traxxas Revo.
< is where the Revo can be found.
Looking at them on youtube ect. they seemed to be pretty much indestructable. I figured this would be perfect for me being as how I can flick an anvil and watch it shatter into 15 peices. If you have the spare time just search "revo" on youtube. You will find ppl jumping them off of house roof's and all kinds of crazy shit. This one guy jumps his about 40ft off of an upper deck parkinglot and it lands lid down on the friggin concrete and doesnt hurt it at all. After seeing this my motive was 100% clear. I HAD to have a Revo.
I made the decision one fine friday morning that I was going to make my purchase. Rollin shotgun w/CB I informed him of this and we wheeled on into Ed's R/C so I could pick this bad mo up. I walk in, ask him if he has one in a dif color than red (red sucks). He finds me one in black. I tell him "I need all the shit to make this thing work". He throws some shit on the counter and starts ringing it up. Around $620-ish later I am walking out with a huge grin on my face. It wont be long til I can really fuck some shit up..
He told me to watch the video (yes this sucker came with a fuckin DVD to watch. For the price of this sonofabitch it should have came with a porn) and the DVD would tell me all about the break in procedure ect. ect.
Wow, this break in procedure looks like about as much fun as using Tabasco Sauce for lube while you jerk off watching reruns of The Golden girls.
Anyhow the break-in procedure consists of 1/4 throttle 2 second revs. No big deal.. I set out to begin this procedure. Motor wont turn, it seems stuck. I spin the flywheel with a screwdriver and it free's up then sticks again. After messing with this fuckin thing for about 5min it finally starts.
About 2min into this break-in procedure I let off the throttle on my run and it stays open. It keeps running.. right underneath my gf's fucking car. Great, wtf just happened? I reach under there and pull it out. Welp, starter motor assembly is now broke in half from being involved in this event.
I make a call to the r/c store to inquire about a starter assembly. He tells me they have them in stock so I hop in the car and make my way down there.
(I have totally forgot about the throttle sticking at this point)
I purchase my starter assembly and go home. I replace it, and once again try to start it which winds up being a lengthy process as once it does finally start it dies on it's own. Eventually I get it runnins and stays running so I can continue the break-in procedure.
New problem, no throttle responce.
I crimp the fuel line off an the motor dies. I now see the problem which caused the throttle sticking at first. The throttle bell has came disconnected from the mount where it screws in at. I grab a pair of needle nose pliers to try an disconnect the spring from it and wind up cracking the bell itself.
I make another call to the r/c store to inquire about a throttle bell. He tells me they have them in stock so I hop in the car and make my way down there.
As I walk in he hands me a bell which appears to be like the one which I had broken except for this one is aluminum. He tells me this one will not break, and informs me of the half price discount he is giving me for my troubles.
I make it home and begin to put this throttle bell on.
Problem.
It is too tall and does not fit properly.
figures..
I go to the garage and decide to grind it down via. bench grinder. This works
I now have the truck completely assembled again and ready to run. I begin the shitty process of trying to get it started again. Finally it starts and is running. About 90 seconds later the truck stops moving. The motor revs but the truck does not budge. Again I crimp the fuel line off to kill the truck and wait for it to cool down to inspect the situation.
Mind you I have "driven" this truck about 4 minutes in total so far at nothing over 1/4 throttle.
^ Keep that in mind as I describe what I find next..
I have discovered the spur gear which runs off of the motor's clutch bell has 1/3 of it's teeth missing. Makes sense to me being the clutch bell gear is metal and the spur gear is fuckin plastic. Doesnt make sense to me tho because I havent even had it past 1/4 throttle yet.
..I am fucking pissed off now
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Traxxas become's a receiver for a very detailed email specifying everything which has happened to this truck. I remain calm in writign it as I want it to be taken seriously.
While waiting for a responce I decide to take the motor off so I can remove the spur gear. While the motor is off I remove the glow plug and the exhaust. It is at this time I realise why the motor is so FUCKIN hard to start. It appears that the rod or piston center pin one is off center. As you freehand spin it, it spins smoothly on the compression stroke until it reaches near the top. Once this happens it sticks for a good 1/6 rotation then has alot of resistance on the down stroke until the piston is about 2/3 down.
I now send Traxxas a 2nd email describing my motor problem.
^ Both email's were totally avoided. The responce I got to the first email was;
"we will send you parts".
The responce I got to the second email was;
"that's just how it works"
Wrong Poncho, that isnt how it works, because the fucking thing does not work at all. I send him another email explaining to him I know how a motor works, as well as how a Deisel motor works which the motor's they use resemble alot as far as compression goes.
He then sends me a reply back avoiding the obvious and simply stating he doesnt understand the problem as I have not described it well enough.
I then write him this email;
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To put it in an understandable term imagine this:
You are pushing a car up a hill. The closer you get the harder it is to push (the pinch begins). Then once you do reach the top of the hill there is a plateau (level spot) on top of this hill (TDC) where the car feels like the brakes have just been applied. It spins like this for the rotation equalivalant of 3 teeth on the clutch bell. Then the downstroke, or the downhill descent beging. The car now has it's brakes on going down the hill meaning you have to still shove it even tho you are on a decline. You reach a 1/3 to a 1/2 way down the hill and the brakes let go and the car (piston) slides down freely.
Does that put into understandable term's what I am talking about?
I understand the "pinch" and it's purpose. It's alot like how a Deisel uses a high tolerence/compression to accomplish it's combustion. The air/fuel mix in this motor is being compressed tightly til it reaches a flash point low enough for the glowplug to ignite it. To do this it is moving as close as possible aginst the head before making it's downstroke. The problem with this "pinch" is that it isnt peaky. Instead of being like that of a triangle, it's more like that of an octagon. Starts up the peak then flats out instead of instantly descending down.
The big problem is the dragging resistance on the downstroke. That shows an inbalance of sorts somewhere along the line. Without having the motor apart which I am not going to do I cannot say for sure what is wrong, but there is nothing 100% right about this motor. If the piston was to give you drag it should be constant. That would show it is sat in the cylinder tightly. Being free on one stroke then resisting on the down stroke shows somethign is not in line.
^ After writing this email and sending it at around 10am this morning I had not heard back from him. It is now that I decide to call and talk to one of these tech-support idiots.
This is where the fun begins..
I call the 800# and they direct me to some dood named Scott I think it was. I tell him I had been playing email tag with some guy abuot my truck but do not remember his name but I could look on the computer an find out. He says not to worry about it so I explain my problems and he says basically what the emails were telling me.. "we'll send parts".
Finally I tell him;
Look, this thing is a complete peice of shit. It's broke more times than not and it isnt even finished the break in period. If this fucked up motor actually runs long enough to get past the break-in what in the hell is going to happen when I run it at wide open throttle? The fuckin transmission shit itself at 1/4 throttle, what's it going to do at WOT? That's given this junk fuckin motor will go WOT w/out blowing a rod.
He ask's what is wrong w/the motor.
I try explaining the motor problem I have to which he tells me;
"That is just how they work. You dont know anything about these. They are different from a normal motor"
He then says;
"Well, I cannot bla bla bla.. You may try talking to the guy whom you talked to before about this"
^ Which is what I wanted to do in the first place..
Ok, im pissed..
I explain to him that while I was snugging down maincaps on a crank and torquing connecting rods he was sitting at a desk being a pencil pushing cocksucker. I did infact know what I was talking about and it was he who did not know a damn thing.
*there's a slight pause*
Dood, you dont get it.. I do NOT want this PEICE of SHIT. I will ship this mother fucker back to you, you ship me a fuckin check for what I paid for it, or send me a fuckin new truck that I can sell to some sucker who doesnt reaalise what a peice of shit it is and I will be on my merry mother fuckin way.
He says;
*click*
Ahahaha the son of a bitch hung the fuck up on me.
Well tomorrow is a new day.. I will begin my Terror on Traxxas once again.
