In my opinion it would look like crap, as my MT is a truck not a car. But different strokes for different folks I guess. In sanction racing if you have a stadium truck or a monster truck you have to run a truck body.

well i like truck bodies but i cant seem to find one that i like that would fit i like the proline and the parma 72' chevy c-10 but im not sure it fits on tower they say thats the parma would fit stadium trucks too i dont want to spend $30 on some thing thats gonna look like *****

I do not see why any 1/10 scale truck body would not work. You have to mark and put the holes for the body post in the correct spot. I sure think the truck bodies would fit a lot better then a car body but have seen many a car body on a MT as well. I have seen some run Savage and Revo bodies on the MT. It all in making it work.

i tried a stock savage body on my mt and just look weird but i dint adjust my body post or anything i dint have time for that. does anyone have any pics of mt a savege, t-max or revo bodies. yeah the guy at my lhs told me "all i had to do was raise my body post and i would be able to rock a savage body"

Somewhere in this thread there are several pictures but I know 300 plus pages. There is all so a guy with the Savage Dodge charger body on his MT and it looked pretty good. I all so think the Savage El Camino body would look good.

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yeah, tower's got good prices. i hate when people put car bodies on trucks. it just looks stupid.

hey, just got my first pullstart is there a trick to get these running?

Make sure it is primed well then I set the throttle trim up some put the glow plug igniter on and pull the cord. Now this is if every thing else is correct.

got it going, the truck runs awesome defineately different than my mt2.as im new to the sport relatively speaking, the steering seems a little tighter in the truck? and how do you know if a steering servo is going bad? thanks for all your help you have been awesome.

Glade you got it running!!!!!!!! When you say the steering is tight not sure what you mean. There are several things that can go bad with a servo, you can strip the gears, mess the motor up or the circuit board goes bad. If the gears strip you normally well make a lot of nose and will turn to a point and stop. If the motor goes bad it will not do anything. If the circuit board goes bad it will act very irregular.

Cool...got my CV-RX running today. Did the break-in, went pretty well...intially the motor flooded quite a bit on the 1st tank, but once it was going the break-in went pretty smooth.

Did some performance tuning and man, does the CV-RX move! Even running a bit rich with smoke pouring out, that thing has some serious grunt!

Just one question though, perhaps you might be able to answer this 46u...I installed the HPI Nitro Racing clutch and it is running on the 2nd setting. Everything seems fine, however when I start the car on a box with the wheels of fthe ground, the clutch is engaging even at low RPMs and the wheels are spinning. Is this OK or is something a bit wrong there? I did notice that when I was trying to connect the two ends of the spring together that holds the shoes on, i did slightly extend the spring a little and it stretched a little. This wouldn't have caused any probs would it?

Thanks
--Matthew

hey guys i got a question the other day i went out with my car and races my bro inblaw in a drag across a field we are both running the os 18cv-rx by the way . but at top end the car didnt go any faster and the engine reved up more i was going quite fast at this point so just wondering what that could of been ? nothing is broken on the car i got the hpi racing clutch and it wasnt the spur gear shreading. the car didnt run differently afterwards so could it just not be tuned quite right then ? or what ?


thanks

ZCNZ

By stretching the clutch spring the clutch will defiantly engage sooner. If the spring is really stretched out the clutch will always be engaged slightly. If I where you I would use the last hole (there should be 3 holes all together use the one closest to the center of the clutch shoe) on the clutch shoes which will engage the clutch at the highest RPM. I am running the HPI Racing Clutch and I always used the hole closest to the center of the shoe for better bottom end power.

rccrazynut

If you engine sounded like it was reving out and the truck is not going any faster I would check the spur gear slipper clutch nut. It should be a 10mm nylon nut that comes loose all the time. I had this happen to me when I first got my MT2 18SS and was running it for the first time in the park. I wound up melting the center of the spur gear where the brass bushing goes. What I have done to fix this from happening again is put blue thread lock on that nut after I adjusted it to the best setting for me.

Getting back to what I said about HPI quality (cheap plastic) a few post back, these problems are exactly what I am talking about that HPI does not address. HPI nylon nut are garbage. Do yourself a favor and go to the local ACE Hardware or Home Depot store and get new nylon nuts for the spur gear and the wheels. I'm sure everyone out there had one of there wheel come loose and round out the where the wheel hub goes because the wheel nut came loose. I wish HPI would address these types of issues.

I guess some might have had problems with HPI plastic but I sure have not on any of my 4 HPI vehicles. I do no a couple of times HPI had problems with air bubbles in there plastic parts and they where weak but I never got any. Yes I agree the first time you take the wheel nuts they do not hold well again so I just put a drop of blue loctite and have never had one come off.

rcnz when you put your truck on the ground does it move at idle or will it sit still on level ground with out applying the brakes? If it only turns with the wheels off the ground but does not creep when on the ground it is OK.

rccrazynut yes check your slipper adjustment.

question of the day? im having a steering issue, it turns left fine but not to the right??? any suggestions?

hey guys!

I just traded my sprint for a mt-2 roller, it's complete minus and engine and radio... what engine would you guys suggest for good speed and that would fit without modification? I hate the nitro stars (ever since my RS43)... but any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks!

mtrchamp i and most others on here would sudgest the os 18cv-rx i myself have one and have never had trouble with the engine eccept something that happend the other day but i dont think its anything wrong with the engine.

46u i have checked my slipper clutch and there is nothing wrong with it. took it off and had a look at it and there was nothing wrong.

ok cool thanks, yea that's what others had told me too, but i'm looking for like the top 5 that would be good... i have a trx 1.5 lying around but i don't kno if it would fit in without modification.. would it? would the o.s .18cv-rx?

all u will need for the os is the engine mounts i think the mt2 ss comes with engine mounts but u said u got it second hand so they might not be there so u will need them

oh ok, and i'm guessing they carry them on Tower Hobbies right? It's Joebaby35's old parts mt2...but I think it only comes with the stock mounts

yeah u can get them on tower, i dont live in us and never ordered from them but i have seen them on there. and the stock engine mounts will work. the only thing good engine mounts do is look a little better but lets face it u cant really see them very well and most good mounts also help displce heat.

Tower has the OS .18TZ on sale for the cheapest I've ever seen $127 click on link below.

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No it doesn't creep forward, just sits there...but you can observe by looking at the clutch bell, that it's really 'trying' to engage and a slighlest blip of throttle will move it forward.

I'm still pretty happy with it though and if its alright like that, I think its running pretty good.
--Matthew