Brake help.
 

I have a tgm-01 Mad Bison, brought it yesterday. Does anyone know how to get the brake to work? May need adjusting or something. When you go to use the brake it just takes the idle speed down and does not actually stop the car untill the car has either crashed or some to a stop by its self. Iam also very new to the nitro thing so please speak to me like im really dumb so i understand. Cheers guys, any help would be good.

RE: Brake help.
 

Its a Tamiya TGM-01 Mad Bison

RE: Brake help.
 

Sorry I am not familiar with your vehicle, but I can see two different scenarios:

1/ Does the vehicle try to take off by itself? If so, sounds like your idle speed is too high so your clutch stays engaged. There's a idle adj screw on the engine that limits the closing of the carb. Unscrew it a 1/4 to 1/2 a turn and try again. Don't confuse it with either of the mixture screws.

or on a completely different take:

2/ It also may be that your brakes need adjsutment which should be done through the brake linkage. In this case, your idle may be dropping because your idle stop screw is set for too low an idle and you need to turn it in a bit.

It's difficult to say without seeing it, but from your description, it sounds like #1 to me.

If you have an instruction manual, look up idle adj and brake adjustment. It might help clear things up.

RE: Brake help.
 

Here is a pic of the engine mate. Cant even see the brakes let alone fixing it. lol

http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/a...4/DSCN2181.jpg

http://i982.photobucket.com/albums/a...4/DSCN2184.jpg

RE: Brake help.
 

you should take a pic of the whole car from up top so we can see where the brake linkage goes, the linkage with the white bit on the end goes to the throttle and there should be another that leads somwhere else.