Traxxas Pull Starter

[Joe Cool]

I've replaced EZ starter to pull Starter. do I need to do anything else??

[Justin Mahn]

A glow warmer or hot shot. And thick skin on your tugging fingers.

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"Joe Cool" <1sagp@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I've replaced EZ starter to pull Starter. do I need to do anything else??

[Divrdan007]

>Subject: Re: Traxxas Pull Starter
>From: "Justin Mahn"

>A glow warmer or hot shot. And thick skin on your tugging fingers.

LOL...
Start drinking very heavily.
The beer-lifting exercise will help build your tugging arm strength, and the
alcohol will ease the pain and frustration of those hard-cold-starts.
You could just get a starter box, but that wouldn't be as much fun.
(Besides, a starter box won't work with some Traxxas vehicles, like the
T-Maxx.)

[Charlie Durand]

I'm curious why you made this change? I have one pull start car and want to
change it to a drill starter as soon as possible.

I've heard of people getting rid of all the starter stuff entirely but I
think that more for performance concerns. That I can understand.

"Joe Cool" <1sagp@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> I've replaced EZ starter to pull Starter. do I need to do anything else??

[frater mus]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 at 18:43 GMT, <c.durand@comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm curious why you made this change? I have one pull start car and want to
> change it to a drill starter as soon as possible.
>
> I've heard of people getting rid of all the starter stuff entirely but I
> think that more for performance concerns. That I can understand.

Usually it's about weight reduction.


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[Divrdan007]

>Subject: Re: Traxxas Pull Starter
>From: frater mus

>> I've heard of people getting rid of all the starter stuff entirely but I
>> think that more for performance concerns. That I can understand.
>
>Usually it's about weight reduction.

Sometimes it's a weight reduction issue.
With Traxxas vehicles it's usually a reliability issue.
The electric (never easy) EZ start is a peice of crap. The one-ways slip all
the time, the gears strip, the glow wires are faulty, the batteries may be too
low to turn the engine over... it goes on and on.
Most newbies like their EZ starters, till they fail for the first time (mine
did within a month) then they start looking for alternatives.
Most go with a pull start.
If a starter box won't work with the vehicle (T-Maxx) ...that's what I would
do.
The "Yank Eliminator" (electric drill starter) works, but you are exposing your
crankshaft, and rear bearings to all kinds of dirt... not good.

[Charlie Durand]

If any part of a car were to fail in the first month I'd be getting it
replaced under the warranty.

I've never had a Traxxas but I have the HPI roto-start setup and like it.
It's way better than pull-starters. I've never tried a starter box. Is
there an advantage of using a starter box over the roto-start type setups?

"Divrdan007" <divrdan007@aol.com> wrote in message
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> >Subject: Re: Traxxas Pull Starter
> >From: frater mus
>
> >> I've heard of people getting rid of all the starter stuff entirely but
I
> >> think that more for performance concerns. That I can understand.
> >
> >Usually it's about weight reduction.
>
> Sometimes it's a weight reduction issue.
> With Traxxas vehicles it's usually a reliability issue.
> The electric (never easy) EZ start is a peice of crap. The one-ways slip
all
> the time, the gears strip, the glow wires are faulty, the batteries may be
too
> low to turn the engine over... it goes on and on.
> Most newbies like their EZ starters, till they fail for the first time
(mine
> did within a month) then they start looking for alternatives.
> Most go with a pull start.
> If a starter box won't work with the vehicle (T-Maxx) ...that's what I
would
> do.
> The "Yank Eliminator" (electric drill starter) works, but you are exposing
your
> crankshaft, and rear bearings to all kinds of dirt... not good.
>
>

[Divrdan007]

>Subject: Re: Traxxas Pull Starter
>From: frater mus

>The 2.5 version of the EZ Start has logic that senses when the
>engine is flooded and it automatically cuts the motor-cranking
>circuit.

Now that sounds like a major improvement.
However... how do you spin the engine again to remove the excess fuel?

I hope the answer is that the EZ start somehow senses that there is no longer
any restriction, and it allows you to spin the engine a couple times to remove
the excess fuel.
If that's the case... way to go Traxxas.

No matter what though, I will still always love my starter box.
But... if you've got a T-Maxx, where you can't use a starter box, the EZ start
seems like the next best thing... if it works like you say.

[frater mus]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 at 20:02 GMT, <divrdan007@aol.com> wrote:
>>Subject: Re: Traxxas Pull Starter
>>From: frater mus
>
>>The 2.5 version of the EZ Start has logic that senses when the
>>engine is flooded and it automatically cuts the motor-cranking
>>circuit.
>
> Now that sounds like a major improvement.
> However... how do you spin the engine again to remove the excess fuel?
>
> I hope the answer is that the EZ start somehow senses that there is no longer
> any restriction, and it allows you to spin the engine a couple times to remove
> the excess fuel.

Yeah, after the GP is pulled the sensor detects the decrease in load
and spins the engine over. Works really well.

> No matter what though, I will still always love my starter box.

Absolutely. Starter boxes are a really great tool; many of my friends
use them and are very happy.

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