Louie, thanks. I found it at Home Depot this morning. I'll give it a shot later. It's raining here in MA. No driving today...

Guys, check out my "wheel mod" post. Pretty good stuff some of you may like... http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_4892311/tm.htm

jczechjr, hopefully you read the specs on your failsafe. For some reason, Futaba failsafes ONLY work with NiCD batts, NOT alkaline or NiMH batts! Supposedly there's something to do with the discharge rate on them. Anyway, I am placing an order in a few weeks for a Duratrax Mini Quake and a whole bunch of goodies and included in that order will be a Duratrax failsafe, which will work like a charm. The Venom and OFNA failsafes might be okay too, but their comments don't specify.

This is copied directly from the comments section of the Futaba fail safe on Tower Hobbies:
COMMENTS: For use with NiCd batteries only, no alkalines or Manganese dry
cells.
The discharge curve of alkalines and NiMH cells is different from
that of the NiCd cells for which this unit was designed. Non-NiCd
cells will not provide the warning at the appropriate time.
Does not work with transmitter in PCM mode.

This one is straight from the Futaba receiver with built in fail safe:
COMMENTS: The R143F receiver cannot be used with dry cell or NiMH batteries.
These batteries cannot endure a large current draw and the voltage
will drop frequently even though the battery is new

Here's the Duratrax Fail Safe - http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&I=LXHLV3&P=ML

This comment is included in the specs:
REQUIRES: Use of NiCD or NiMH batteries, do NOT use ALKALINES
Connecting between receiver and throttle servo

Remember - always read the fine print... [:@]