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Old 04-13-2010 | 08:31 AM
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Does the area you fly in have sand? Just a thought.
Now that you say that I do have to change my statement. I did have 2 Tower Nitro ST15's Stadium Trucks and niether one of them are running now. They lasted less than a year. They ran on the ground in dirt and dust that you just couldn't keep out of the engines. Eventually a combination of needles that turned on there own and would not stay rich and all of the dirt ruined these engines.-BW

Did you run an air filter on those? I run 1/10 scale glows a lot on baseball diamonds and in the dirt and I mean I wail on them!! I kick up major dust and dirt, run right through it..jump it, flip it, you name it...when I pull the filter boot off the venturi is clean as a whistle.

I can imagine with no filter these motors would check out in no time..