JayJ
05-17-2001, 07:46 PM
I went back to the hobby shop after work to see if they could get the truck running, and I just knew it would be something simple that would make me look stupid. All he did was fiddle with the high-speed mixture screw a bit. He turned it two turns out and the dumb truck ran fine. I was like, "Wait a minute! I must've done that exact same thing a billion times yesterday, and it never ran for me!" He just grinned and shrugged, the little punk. My truck must not like me :). So he ran it through most of the first tank of fuel, afterwhich I went home to try it myself. The good news is that I was able to keep it running. But now, something else. I feel so stupid for having problems with all these silly little things, but here goes: How the heck do you get the darn thing to move!? When he drove it, it seemed like all he did was rev it up a little bit and it automatically kicked into gear and took off (errr, sputtered off). But when I did the same thing at home, it just sat there and revved. So my annoying beginner question again is, how do you get it to kick into gear? Maybe I just didn't rev it enough, but I thought I was giving it quite a bit of throttle. Judging by the sound, at least as much throttle as he was giving it. So I didn't get to run it through the second tank of fuel, but also because my transmitter batteries got low and it started to rain anyway, so I don't feel that bad :). Seems like I'm getting there in baby steps....