Nitro RC Car Revival - Can We Start It After Sitting For 22 Years?!
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- With enough fear and brake cleaner we can start anything!
We found this old thing in a box in a closet and instead of just leaving it alone like a sane person, I decided to pull it out start messing with it. First things first - this is a Duratrax Maximum BX. It was originally sold by Tower Hobbies and this was the RTR version. While it has been sitting for years, it appears to be complete minus the body - though it must have had a second life as a saw dust collection system.
I started by replacing the dirty fuel line with a new line/filter combo from Du-bro (P/N 680). Be sure to open the filter up and make sure your filter screen is actually covering the outlet hole and remove all the little bits of aluminum leftover from machining.
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Once that was all squared away, I topped her off with Sidewinder off-road fuel. It's a 20% nitro blend that's a little bit higher in oil content for more bashing protection.
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For spark I was actually surprised it was quite hard to find a modern glow plug equivalent for the discontinued DTXG3001, DTXG3003 and the sorta available DTXG3005 but wrong temperature gold plug. I used the Dynamite glow plug as a replacement and it worked great for me. So hopefully this helps somebody find that a DYN2500 plug works great for Torq 12 or Torq 16 engines. Those engine are used in the Duratrax Maximum BX, ST and MT.
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Finally we got her running and immediately flipped it - Now I have even more to repair... I'm gonna get her back together, swap out the aftermarket wheels and tires for the stock ones and try to find a body. If anybody has any leads on a replacement body for the Duratrax Maximum BX buggy or can recommend another body that fits it would be a huge help!
Came to your channel from tiktok and just wanted to say I watched the video without seeing how many subscribers you have and I honestly was blown away how well the video was made. I thought I was watching a CZcamsr with a million subs! You definitely deserve more subscribers and I think pretty soon this channel will blow up.
Your comment means the world to me buddy! I appreciate the support and maybe one day we’ll get there, only 17 more years to go!
Same!
Thanks for wandering over and welcome to all my bs…
@@MatthewFinlay what are those wheels and tires called? I really like them
Let me take a look tonight! They appear to be an older aftermarket wheel/tire. I’ll update you buddy!
Nitro is for the rc guy who enjoys the challenge. I hope to get back into it eventually
I could not have said it better myself haha. I've got it running pretty good after replacing the carb o-ring that was in a few different pieces. Unfortunately I'm still searching eBay and Facebook groups for an original body and I'll then I'll make a part 2 update!
Got the maximum mt w the TORQ .16 engine when I was 15. Found nearest hobby shop at that time around 2001 in Salem VA which was 2 hours away and called them to c if they had the maximum mt and to my insane luck they had one in so of course I began to beg my dad to get it for me. About 3 weeks later I was on my way to pick up my first ever Hobby Grade RC that was NITRO POWERED! I was the happiest kid around, bet ya lol but it was very very hard to start, kept flooding it, wore blisters on my fingers but boy when it finally fired up the first few moments I was hooked, never knew about 2 stage idle and it much about how to tune it good, had lots of problems, but wouldn't change any of it for nothing.
That’s awesome! I got my buggy at 14 because I wanted a car so bad and my parents compromised haha. These things are awesome for nostalgia but terrible to find parts - I’m still searching for a body.
Thank you for the smiles and laughs
Anytime buddy! I’m glad you enjoyed it
*the sawdust is factory, to filter out all the contaminates that aren't sawdust*
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Golden. You got me, I'll sub
Hahaha thanks buddy, I mean it works great until the sawdust finds the carb
As a vet, the pug analogy... excellent and accurate
Our German Shepard running a mile and panting a little for a few minutes and the pug that struggles to breathe laying on the bed
Sad to see there wasn’t a second video follow up on this. I’m pondering getting my 23 year old nitro car going again.
Me too buddy, I got it all repaired but I have been searching for an original body on eBay and a Facebook group and the only thing I’ve found was an overpriced/broken buggy. I just couldn’t justify the price for something that was worse then mine haha. Do it! Get it out and have fun with it again!
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Those pulls were gruesome close to breaking the cord... Too close for comfort.
First nitro rc I ever had was the maximum mt.... had many issues and headaches but I was also 14 had no idea the proper way to tune a nitro engine, but when it was running it was so worth the downtime as well because I've learned from mistakes with it and I'm now 35 have a savage x and a losi 8ight rtr buggy and an axial spawn rock crawler and Mt wife and sons arrma granite and Traxxas stampede
I remember looking through the Tower Hobbies catalog daily and never being able to afford one! The headaches are just part of the deal with them haha
I just got a savage x 4.6 big block. been sitting for a while but dude told me it ran. Should I just clean the carb and fuel system before it Try firing it up? Supposedly it was tuned and running great before he parked it for a year or better. I got the servos fired up and everything is ready just haven't tried to fire it up yet. It also has a brand new 3 speed trans in the box. Are those any good? It looks like a sweet machine.
That riv is awesome. Just got an hpi savage 25 that’s been sitting for about 10 years. Thanks for the video. I subscribed
Awesome buddy! How’s it running?
Just like my Hyper 7 yesterday, it started fine after sitting for more than half a year and then followed hours of problems, it ended with a broken rope.
And we wouldn’t change a thing about the hobby haha
@@MatthewFinlay That's what set's it apart from other more ordinary hobbies. Not many people have the patience nor they want to have it. 😈
That's! Rc old Car Nitro Brocken Run & again brocken.
Once you find her sweet spot ............ great video thanks.
Finally found it haha, only took a year haha
forgot the gate was locked and its kinda rusted shut.. so... 1, 2, 3, 4.. you can never be to safe with your codes nowadays!
You cracked me up dude🤣
Hahahahaha dangit Tim, now I gotta change it back to 0, 0, 0, 0 since too many people know it!
@TheRealLoganYT I had to change it back to 0,0,0,0 so nobody can get in!
Your video deserves more views and you more subscribers!!!! Your presentation is just excellent and the content very very cool. It was this video that got me interested in restoring old nitro RC's. Subbed!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for the kind words and feedback! You rock!
Bruh all the work for 30 seconds Damm lolb
That’s what she said…. And thats literally the story of my life
his commmentary makes me feel like his mom forced him to clean his little brothers rc car lmaooo
You have no idea buddy haha
I did not expect the ending🤣
No one ever does haha. I’ve got it all repaired but I’ve searched high and low and still can’t find a body for it.
@@MatthewFinlay well its over 20 years old😅 i cant even find parts for my hobao 8.5.
Touché, I wish manufactures would release their CAD files when the stop production so we could at least get parts 3D printed as workaround
Definitely used to be a duratrax maximum ST or BX. At first I thought MT, but the MT had a metal spur gear. This car has plastic. MT had torq .16. The others torque 12.
you should hame it ol sparky
The ol’ is the best part!
Call it Cherry aid
I revived my kyosho inferno mp5 from 1995, you can do it too!
Dude that’s sick!!! It’s seems that people rarely revive the 90’s nitros. I’m STILL searching for a stock body - I’ve modified a random buggy body that’s sorta/kinda close in the mean time. How is finding parts for Kyosho from back then?
@@MatthewFinlay it’s alright, kind of sucky since it’s impossible to find a spur gear and things like that, can’t find a body for it either, I’m just running the old beat up body
It sucks that we’re either trying to find parts or a junky parts car to fix stuff. The plastics on mine definitely aren’t what they used to be and are becoming brittle
@@MatthewFinlay yes that is the reason that I don’t really go nuts on it, I recently left nitro but still have the buggy, I have gotten into gas now, I may run it a little bit again this coming June
Call it the Red Wing
Hahaha I’m still searching for a stock body for the silly thing
lol you say its a 1998 rc thats my birth year yay
I wouldn’t recommend that oil your going to have to clean that out if you plan to put nitro fuel in w
been in the hobby for years , am now 21 .. might crack a case nd fire up the ol girls . revo 3 tree and that potato ( jato ) 3 tree 💀😂
Do it! It was a super fun project and reminded me of being a kid and doing it all over again
Love seeing the video n this, over here in the Uk it’s branded as G.V Models and called the Panther, can’t find much on that over here but final found the brand that you have here and finally get some answers but sadly for the age most of the videos are from many years ago so quality of video is poor, look forward to seeing more
Hey that’s awesome, I never expected it to be rebranded in other countries. I’m still searching for a stock body for it but I already got the control arm repaired and rebuilt/sealed the carb to get her running a little better. There’s more to come but I just haven’t put it all in a video yet. And I agree - all the videos of this car were filmed with a potato.
@@MatthewFinlay yeah I had a hard time to find any info or pictures of mine, I’ve searched for more than 10 years but found nothing. Then luckily I found a video of what I found of mine but it had different body mounting which is the monster truck version of your brand, I bought the body mounts for that when I was a teen but was unable to fit it as im missing the little square finger hook on the back diff, I’m trying to find one of them, and body wise I’m having a hard time finding one that matches mine that came with the car, totally different body to what came on yours. Trouble is that it’s an old car and no one in the Uk has supplies of them
Ahhh here the monster truck is called the Duratrax Maximum ST and the only real place I’ve gotten traction of find old parts for there are eBay and sooooometimes by researching to find the P/N and just googling it since most places don’t have a Duratrax section. I’ve tracked down two bodies that seem close but are for way new models of RC cars. At some point it might be worth it to get the mount remade in CAD and 3D printed! Also if you need something from the US and they won’t ship it over there let me know and I’ll send it. I can’t imagine shipping being cheap but at least you’ll get it!
@@MatthewFinlay thank you fella. You don’t know how amazing that is. Really appreciate that
Do you have a Facebook or Instagram?
I had that 🙂
13:22 How the HELL did you start it that fast?? They Really don't make them how they used to, it takes my brand new one like 8 pulls
It’s pretty slow but it’s a total tank of an engine. After replacing the o-ring around the carburetor base it now runs pretty darn great. Still searching for an original style body but have tracked down an original set of wheels for it.
@@MatthewFinlay that's awesome. Can't wait to see a video running it
Me too, since it been so long without any luck I’m beginning to lean towards just cutting up an aftermarket universal body to fit even though the dimensions aren’t even close OR 3D printing a body with flexible, fuel resistant filament. Both sound like fun. And thanks for watching buddy, glad to have you here!
Maybe look up how to tune an rc
That’s going to be in the second video - this was just to revive it back to life. Once I dug into it, no amount of tuning would fix the issues it had. The exhaust manifold gasket was blown out on the bottom and the carb o-ring was in pieces. Now that those are fixed and it’s been adjusted it’s doing great.
I want this one but i cant find it online
They are super hard to find! I’m still searching for a body. They pop up on eBay every once in a while though.
low speed needle too lean ?
It was actually massively cracked and hardened o-ring at the carb base. It fell apart when I pulled the carb to clean it out. Put a new one on and it runs light years better. Something I didn’t even think to check at the time!
What brand is it
Duratrax Maximum BX
Nice thanks also I love your channel and I just subbed. :-)
Thank you, that means a lot!!! We are still tracking down a body for it - way harder to find Duratrax parts then I expected, but the rest of it is now fixed and we stock wheels and tires for it.
Does it matter what fuel I use can someone help I brought a really good rc car from mate and I don’t know what fuel to use because some people say nitro but I don’t know what kind or if you have to mix 🤨🤨
Solid question I chose Sidewinder branded off-road fuel because it’s approx 20% nitro and heavier on oils. Since this was on older engine with a whole bunch of unknowns I wanted the extra lubrication. On most any other car I’d use a name brand 20% nitro with 12% (ish) oils. Some fuels need a bit of tuning so I stick with Sidewinder for everything for simplicity. Once you get in better engines and race level things or want to monitor engine head temps you could experiment with higher nitro contents for peak power - I’m just a hobbiest so I just want them to start, run and bash and not have to worry about fuels. Nope to mixing - the fuels come premixed. I get mine from Amazon or our local hobby/model train store.
@@MatthewFinlay oh thanks so much that’s helped me a lot and do you know if you need different type of igniter or does any good one just work or do you need certain width and length
Any good one will work! I’d stay away from anything that is about the size of a AA battery - I don’t know the name of the cell they use off the top of my head but they are just too small IMO for a day of fun and consistently lighting off a plug. Get something that has what looks like a small C or even a D battery - the extra capacity won’t hurt anything and it’ll come in handy when you try and clear out a flooded engine. The longer one are generally used for airplanes to reach through the cowl plastics or RC cars/trucks that have engine under the body. I had one once like that and drilled a whole in the plastics and used a longer reach igniter to reach it. I wouldn’t pay extra for a longer one in normal use though - it’ll just flop around more as you’re trying to use it.
I’d just search/Amazon RC car glow plug igniter or along those lines. If you don’t add the “RC” part in you’ll get weird results cause some (most) diesels use glow plugs or at least some version of them as well and it’ll mess up your results.
@@MatthewFinlay that is actually a well good idea I’m gunna get a bigger one because I’ll probably be buying another rc car soon anyway 🤣thanks for letting me know and getting back to me so quick
No body shoty
Still haven’t found a body for it!
you need a remote?, also use jconcepts for a new rc body
That remote is a little sad but it works like a champ!!!! I don’t it or the car got much use. I’m gonna check out jconcepts this morning! Thank you for the heads up, you rock!
@@MatthewFinlay no problem, i work on rcs and i trust jconcepts rc bodies
you might need to retrofit the body though
www.jconcepts.net/shop/s15-mugen-mbx8-body
I think this one could be fit pretty easily and looks pretty similar to the original!
You pull the cord to far out.
U just can't kill a nitro lol
You really can’t - I mean, I tried...
You cant kill a nitro
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Haha thanks buddy!
This video would have been way better with less of the sarcastic comments...not saying that they shouldnt be thrown in but seem to over power the video...