StephenW

My pull start on my xp works great... when it works. Lately when i pull the cord it catches 1 or 2 times. Never had a prob. before and is there an easy fix to this?

RoadBurner

One way bearing, my does the same thing, the cold causes it not to function correctly. It works fine when the motor is warm! I believe ehroof has a bandaid fix somewhere in one of these threads!

firebird78

if ur running not far from the house heat the engine up with a blow dryer

kbohm1

O and just get rid of the pull start or upgrade for a better one before it breaks, not being able to start your engine really sucks.

ehroof

take off the pull start, take off the backplate and the one way bearing,clean with carb cleaner and put it back in, will work for a while or for good, depends on the fuel your using, traxxas top fuel and a few others have alot of oil and cause the one way bearing to slip.

StephenW

thanks guys for the quick replys (that rymed) Too bad tho, i kinda wanted to do surgery..lol

TThib

Getting rid of the pull start and installing a roto won't solve his one way bearing problem, it stays put.

StephenW

I like pull starts. No need to carry extra stuff around.

TThib

Unless you have a partially torn rotator cuff like me! []

RoadBurner

Is this correct, I never seen a roto start or a back plate for them, I just bought one from Clermont though! I hope he has lightning fast shipping!

StephenW

ouch. My friendhurt his at a wrestling tourney. He got dropped on it. Wasn't his first time hurting it tho. What did you do?

kbohm1

I guess I've just personally had some issues, well not some, actually just one big one, with the stock pullstart, I upgraded to roto, but I would imagine their are better pull starts out there if you like them.

TThib

Yes... The one way bearing is on the inside of the backplate. 4 screws take off the pullstarter, 4 more take off the backplate. You don't have to remove the backplate to put a rotostart on.

Ah Yes, I was playing ice hockey a few months ago and took a slapshot from the point. A fraction of a second before I hit the puck, I got hit from the side causing my stick to hit the ice early. Apparently the torque was enough to do a number on my rotator cuff. Rehab for now, I want to avoid the surgery.

TThib

Roadburner, just take the backplate off while you are installing the Roto and flush the bearing like ehoof said. What fuel you using?

firebird78

within 4 days from the day you ordered it...I get my stuff in ks in 3 days

RoadBurner

Not sure the brand, but it is 30%, I am sure it is heavy on the oil, the thing makes a mess!

firebird78

hopefully u got the starter wand with that roto start...lol...if not i'm sure u can rig somethin up to turn her over.

TThib

Probably whats happening then... oil is bunging up your one way. Clean it up... it's easy.

RoadBurner

Well I hope the roto start comes with a wand, it shows it in the picture!

kbohm1

Which roto start did you get, the one I got from redcat came with the roto, wand and a backplate.

firebird78

thought maybe u just got the back plate without the starter...my bad

autoart4you

So I had a problem with the pull-start I got from Redcat. It was for my Volcan SV/ VX.18 the pull-start had the right bolt pattern but the cut out for the OW was way too small! So I called Redcat and they are supper cool! He said he had not seen this but would look into it. They sent me a new OW and a new pull-start and now that i have both of them here I see that the 1st pull-start they sent did have too small of a cut out for the OW and as far as i can tell the two pull-starts are the same in every other way so i hope someone from Redcat will see this and sort out the problem? I would say that there manufacturer has made some off a bad mold? and this may be a hard fix for them because neither pull-start had a part # on it? Well I hope no-one else gets the wrong one. I'm off to do some bashing!!!!!!