Smokin240sx

GOD!!![sm=punching.gif][sm=punching.gif][:@]dumb savage stupid @$&#% please help me the other day i started up my savage and i had no control over it it just ran off and then the engine cut off dumb @%$% i don't know *** is wrong with it it worked fine until i installed that hitec 645mg servo in.[:@][]

ed260z

Make sure that you pluged the servo in right. All the black wires should be on the same side. Chances are that you just fried your RX if you did it wrong. Do you have a fail-safe?[8D]

Smokin240sx

yeah i have a fail-safe

Smokin240sx

everything works fine until i start it up then it's all down hill from there "literally"

Q8 RC

my problem with the savage is when my mobile rings the wheels turn like creazy and the engine revs up only if i am really close though [&:]

Bader

KUWAIT

iluimu81

I was driving my savage around last week and it just took off for no reason. I got both Remote and Receiver packs fully charged and there was no one else playing around with RC other then myself. Anyway, it hit the wall with full throttle and broke only 4 parts (chassis, electronic box, bent the front drive shaft, and throttle servo). I tested the fail-safe from my 3pk remote control after my heart stop [sm=punching.gif] and it was working fine [sm=confused.gif][sm=confused.gif][sm=confused.gif].

I think 100 bucks will put it back to life.

Here is the question: Should I buy the extend chassis or just get the regular stock one?

:Green:

couple of questions for the guys with runaway trucks: what brand of radios and fail safes are you guys using?
what good is the fail safe if they dont work?

iluimu81

I use 3PK and it is one of the top 10 radio but it still fail. Not sure if double fail-safe will work better than one.

RabidRacer

some times your needles can be set off and it will start under heavy throttle. this has happend to me a ton of times with my nitro evader. aslo a commen prob is someone bumps the trim. so you might want to check that

stevblutu15

been running under power line? that can do it somethimes, did you fry anything, does it all work fine with the engine off? were there any trucks with like cop antennea's nearby?

:Green:

even if those things mentioned above happen why wouldnt the fail safe stop the truck, I was under the empression thats what its for. seems the fail safe is a waste of money if it dont keep the truck from running away during any glitch. right?

Smokin240sx

it works fine when the engine is off

stevblutu15

you may have a faulty failsafe causing your problem i had this with my dynamite, on my rc boat. My boat is gasoline, but uses a resistor spark plug so te spark doesnt interfere with the electronics. The failsafe would cause the boat to glitch, co im thinking you have a bad failsafe. I called dynamite, and they told me it was the spark plug, idiots. I would eleminate the failsafe, and test the truck. Just keep you leg in front of it to see if it works. That's all i can think of.

Carnutz68

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Yeah if the fail safe is bad it will make strange things happin.

4C8DAN

Hello,

This may help you.......

My car done similar when the failsafe got wet... unclipped the failsafe case, sprayed with WD40 and dried off the excess with rag. All good, now its wrapped in plastic!

Been fine since.

Hope this helps.

:Green:

I got the ofna failsafe and it does say that it is suppose to stop the truck in the event of lost transmitter signal, low battery or interrupted signal.

so I would guess that you guys failsafes arent working.

youie

If you have fitted a new servo and have a fail safe, are you sure the REVERSE switching on your TX is correct.

Crazy_Coconuts

i use the stock radio and this never happened to me, but one possibility could be that your linkages are snapped or somthing is stopping your servo from coming back to neutral...

youie

The stock radio has the throttle reverse switch. If your failsafe activated and the throttle reverse switch on the stock radio was incorrect, then it would accelarate instead of BRAKE.

iluimu81

It will scare me like h**l if this failsafe doesn't work with my new FG Monster Beetle. I mean if it hits the wall or a car then it will be ok but a human then it will brake some one' ankle. Now I'm scare to play with it and i'm sure that my MB won't have insurance

geofferama

Hmmm... I have a 3PM tx and i've been temporarily using a traxxas servo for my throttle (instead of my busted hitec).

I had to reverse the servo on my tx, and now the failsafe goes WOT instead of braking.

Is this something you can fix in the radio, or....?

Richie-EB4

If i have read this right..........just plug the servo in the other way round.

Hope i got this right

ed260z

Firt make sure that when you pull the trigger it goes to WOT. If thats fine just reprogram the fail safe. it takes 2 seconds.

brokenstuff

i use dynamite and venom failsafes


both work great but i have noticed the dybnamite glitching when the radios off ill put a venom on my xfactor thats arriving tomorrow

neb

I had the same problems when the engine was started the servos went off by themselves and when the engine was off they worked fine, it was my receiver, which was stock at the time, the receiver is meant to be padded out with some foam so it is protected from the vibrations. Also try running the truck without the failsafe like stevblutu15 said if it works fine without it you know the failsafe is the problem