It seems to me that there's a variety of tasks done in normal work on RC cars. I know for me, I hate to work on oil shocks. I can never get them built just right and too often they leak and leave a mess over the bodies. What do you hate to work on the most on your cars?

For shocks you need to get one of these (see picture below).

The thing I hate the most is having to pay for everything [:@]

Yeah. That's a good one! I think we all hate that very much. [sm=lol.gif]

I hate cleaning my emaxx after every mud run. But it is pretty easy with a hose. I also dont like maintaning brushed motors either. I have bad luck with brushed motors as it is..

I voted "Other". I happen to like building and maintaining my R/C's. The "Other" part I hate about R/C just is'nt coming to me right now (of coarse paying, but i hate paying for anything!!). And well as for cleaning....Not so fun but i wouldent say i hate it. Its a good thing to look things over after a run, cleaning is a good way to spot anything missing, broken, ect...

I voted "other" and the reason is......nothing. I hate nothing about R/C. It is a hobby I enjoy and it clears my mine of all lifes other problems. Same goes for my buggy and my airplanes. I just get away from every day crap and focus on having fun...

I hate picking up my broken car.

Dirt, I just can't stand a dirty vehicle. An air compressor only goes so far to clean after a run.

Nothing really......except, I live in a rural area so waiting for parts (takes about 10 days) [:@]

PULL STARTER RECOILS..... AGHHH!!!!

no one can top those SOB.

i spent 2.5 hours in the dark at night (decided to clean the one way right before bed baaaaad idea) putting that coil back into the 1/16 scale pull starter, and when i did i nearly cried for joy. so by the time i was done, it was 2:00 AM...

i also dont like starting a stubborn engine and end up running out of gas a few feet from the starting point.

I hate tuning Engines [:-] especially the TRX engines[:-][:-][:-]

Pull starter recoils I TOTALLY agree!!!

Ahh, Its coming back to me now!!

spending big on stuff, and charging batteries, and not having a running car to play with when you can[>:]

AGREED.. hate dam pull starts.. hate them even more when you pull it too hard because your so pissed and you have to put it back to together with the damn spring and string driving you nuts[:@][:@]

For me, probably starting and tuning nitro engines. Possibly shocks after that. Soldering, motor maintenance, and electronics are no big deal. Actually I sort of enjoy brushed motor maintenance and solder on some level.

Gearing..... Its annoying when your Rollout is incorrect and your just that little bit behind the other guy or you mess the rollout up and cook the motor..

I put other. What I hate most is waiting. Waiting around till it is your turn to race. Waiting for your batteries to charge between runs. Waiting in a long line at the hobby shop while another clueless customer holds the line up. Waiting for new products that should have come out months ago to finally come out. Waiting for the next race day b'cos the last race was rained out. etc.

Tuning nitro engines. I love them when they're running fine but I really don't enjoy tuning them. Gas engines behave better.

You missed a big one- Gluing tires[:@]. I'm actually pretty good at it by now, but it still sucks.

I like doing everything else. I used to not like rebuilding shocks, but now it's one of my favorite things to do.

i would say bearing cleaning or chassis toe in ect, but i dont do those things
i said shocks, tho half the time i just get new ones. man im lazy!

General cleaning of nitro vehicles is my r/c nemesis. Pretty much every other aspect is enjoyable to me, but I really hate removing spent castor goop and dirt. Electrics are much easier to clean. I love working on a well engineered vehicle, not so much the ones that require removing half the chassis to get at a differential, but even that's better than hosuework[. ]Paying for everything is a close second, as that is definitely a perennial thorn in my posterior.

I love doing most of the work on my trucks, but I hate having to pop off ball joints and put them back on. Pain in the arse. Ball joints and E-clips. Hate 'em.

Yeah E-clips get to be a real pain in some cases. The front suspension shafts on my GB-01 are probably about the worst I've yet encountered. Besides being extra small, they're set into the chassis in a way you can't really get even small needle nose pliers in there very well. You got to use small screwdrivers.

It's a toss-up:

#1 thing is adjusting the 1-2 shift point in the Savage 25 3-speed...whole tranny has to come out and be taken apart. Then back in it goes with a "hope" that now it's adjusted "OK"

#2 thing is taking out buggy differentials, cleaning the grease out, adding silcone oil, and putting back together.

All in all, I'm a bit lazy, and both these jobs take too long where a bit of a design change could make it soooooooooooooo easyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.