mattytheking1

i see your point there, witch is why i am glad i bought a paper one and a other copper one thanks for the info thunderwolf

me to and i also have no idea, this is still my first 5th scale but second motor in it id maybe ask someone else on here about that, but they seem fine, also wont be able to rip or tare if you take head off your engine.

ok so i got my gaskets today, and i have stuck one of the coppers in and boom it was popping on choke and little mess about with the idle screw and it was running looks like jolly_roger_uk was right, it was a air leak, when i took head off, 3 corners were dry, expected for one thanks to all who commented, was a good help

ok so time for an update i have not bought a gasket kit just yet, but when i did replace the head gasket when replacing the piston, so only just back in from messing around with it again and i seen the head bolts with lock washers, they were not full flat or flush screwed in fully, so i did them up a little and it start and the weird sound i was getting went away a little, but it did run for couple of seconds now my plan with it i think is to still get a gasket kit and make sure bolts are done up right so my next questions is, what gasket kit i could get? i have seen ddms steel heavy duty one on ebay or what about copper ones, or should i just stick with the paper "standard" ones?

a, no the throutle was not wide open, i did try to do that as well to start it, if it needed a little more fuel ok i will try and get my hands on some new gaskets this week and ill strip it down cheers

yeah i did all that, i have been using one from day one, i am getting spark and im sure its not rubbing on the fly wheel also tx and rx? dont know what that means sorry, im guessing you mean kill switch? i had all that sorted and was not on "kill" the engine. cheers for the message

i have just tryed setting it back to stock and does not want to pop on choke i might have a video to show, but i dont know how to upload one on here, would i need to upload to youtube and give a link?

i did think of that but i have not fired it up again just yet, but it was not making this weird sound before i stuck the new piston in it was running fine ill maybe try and start it up and stick the back to stock settings thanks for getting back to me

hi all i am having trouble with my engine the other day it was running like a treat and then it just cut out randomly, i got it home and taken spark plug out and checked for spark, there was no spark, so i though it was just the coil witch has been knocked off track with the flywheel so i relined it all and then i started getting spark after messing around with it after that i started sticking it all back to try and start it, so yanking on it for ages and wondering what is going on...getting fuel to spark and thought i was just flooding it, so i remember seeing a little trick online "might be this forum site" to stick a little bit of 2 stoke oil down the spark hole to see if it is compression so i stuck some oil in and tryed to fire it up, this was not on choke and it just popped like it would on choke when you pull and try and start so i gathered this is where the problem is i had a new piston head and the piston ring is not very old so i just stuck new piston in and used the same piston ring due to not being very old and worn now i have tones of compression but it dont sound right when i pulled on the starter making everything going round in the engine, its sounding like a tubo charger on a car when you up shift on gears,making that kind of whistle sound i did manage to get it started with this strange sound yesterday and it did fire up but it was running at full revs and going nuts i am stuck on ideas and possible things witch could be doing this, this is my second engine in this and dont want to get more parts or anything like that right now, these parts are not even 3 months old crank case and head, crank shaft is from original engine and its a stuffed crank they call it, it was running fine before it just conked out on me the other day and never made this sound before sticking this new piston into it any help would be amazing for me, i have writing it how i can remember how everything went

cheers bud, i will keep all this in mind, and make sure i do it right lol, before this diff died on me, i did take it out before i bashed it and stuck some more oil into it, and when i cracked it open, there was not much in, so i did fill one of the cups with gears in it, would that of been what caused it to snap away at the bolt tabs?

nice idea mate, im deffo going to buy a turtle racing case and will look into the hpi stock diff. any good ideas on the diff oils? likes of thickness, think they go by cc or something?

good idea, think i will go the route, buy a new diff for the now, then get a tr case, i have heard the integy stuff is bad, just wanted to see if there gear box was any good!

cheers bud, but would be better if the seller is in the uk cause its a b*tch if its from the US or some where like that