so I went and bought the headder and pipe i got a nice traxxas pipe alum. blue put it on my motor ran for about 5 mins but ran bad... well now you pull the starter and its real hard... CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
AND IF ITS BLOWEN CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE I COULD FIND ONE THATS NOT REAL PRICEY!!!
ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT
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First off what engine? Have you taken the head off to see if it turns over the same or if there is damage to the piston. The header should not make it run much different or make it run bad. Have you takn out the plug to make sure its not flooded?

Probably just flooded. Take off glow igniter, turn up side down, and pull the pull-start.

SORRY I should of went more into as we speak i just tore the motor out took the head off and back plate it is real ruff at tdc. looks like there is alot of play in the cont. rod

What do you mean its real rough at top dead center. It shold have resistance at the top. Thats where the pinch is. Its possible that you just flooded it. With the head off and pulling the pull start does it turn easier. Was teh motor even broke in? Was that the first time it has been run?

oh iv beet it up a bit i have had it since b4 xmas. i have the head off it seems like the cyld. wall has gotten smaller.. maybe overheated it.. do you thenk the alum pipe made it run lean

It may have run a little lean. Have you checked your temperatures at all durring running. Over heating wont make it smaller. It will make it more lose. Its supposed to be tight near the top. Thats good. You may have flooded it and maybe even your glow plug is bad. If the plug is bad then it will flood and be very hard to turn.

put the head back on, make sure you tighten it in a criss cross patern so you dont warp the head. try to pull it. if its tight, take the plug out, is it any better? Most likely you flooded it, that pipe may have pressurized the tank and put more fuel in the engine.

ok so the piston is borken where the cont rod conects to the piston it is just about to snap... so are these motors worth the rebuild and what should i get to do it if so....

Send it back for the engine replacement program through redcat!

trade it in to redcat for the sh.18, you will get it for less than $50 with the engine replacement program!!!

http://www.redcatracing.com/itemdeta...tno=sh18engine

yea... I dont think they will take it back.. and how long is the wait... If someone from redcat approves it

you can run it over with a car and they will take it back, smash it with a sledghammer, lol. read the erp:

http://www.redcatracing.com/pressrelease.asp?id=1001

"For as long as you own your vehicle, Redcat will replace your engine no matter what happens to it. Burn it up, wear it out or beat it with a sledge hammer, Redcat will replace it for same or upgraded motor for only 1/2 of the retail price of the replacement motor you want to buy."

They have a life time engine replacement!

do i need to put it back together?

i do not have the invoice or recipet from when i bought it

maybe you can contact the person or dealer you bought it off of, they should be able to look up an invoice for you.

Sigh.....Keep those receipts folks. Where else can you get a Better engine than you started with for only $50? Its one of the reasons why I WENT with Redcat.

now they tell me.................................. ah and to top it off I dont have the body shel to take a pic. i was runnin on a cold very cold day and the truck slid into my foot and bam body dead... truck FINE foot BLACK AND BLUE.... well my buddy has a .26 what do ya think

wont fit without Mods

what kinda mods?????

motor mount, new holes in the chassis not to mention the stripped gears you will have, lol. its would be good for a show off rc but not for all the time. rc danny has a hyper .21 in his volcano and its crazy fast and does crazy wheelies. he should have entered it in the wheelie constest but he was too busy.

ic.... well i hate to spend the cash on a cylnd. and piston and cont. rod I just need to get it running... I just spent so much on exhuast i wanna hear it.. its not far to pay 100 bucks for a motor... I know redcat should help me. I sent my info to them. but its strange that my order is not on there site. I love my truck.. but i never even made it through a gal of fuel.. and yes i did the traxxas break-in it seems to be the best it took about 41/2 hrs to complete. I think i just got a bad motor.

A Newbs Essay......
Im a nitro newb and I KNOW I abused my first motor. I didnt do it on purpose,,I was just clueless. I had only seen one other nitro up close. Never Heard one run, so I didnt know what it was supposed to sound like. Didnt have any experience of how it should idle or how High it should idle.
My engine fired right up the first time. Ran a tank through it on a box (wheels in the air). Idle was too high and wheels started spinning FAST as it warmed up. So.......I put the Brake on....Lol....wheels stopped spinning. Ran out the tank and noticed what looked like smoke comming from truck. Looked closer and saw smoke comming from the clutch. LOL clutch bell turned a nice shade of gun metal ( I heat treated it ! ) blue from overheating cuz the shoes were dragging. Im guessing the engine got pretty HOT. Didnt have a Temp gun yet.
Didnt seem to hurt anything. Clutch still worked fine after it cooled down. I continued the break in process. Runnaway idle went away as soon as I put wheels to cement. Finished break in and tuned as per Forum info. Everything was great for a while. then one day Temps went sky high! +300 deg. (had temp gun by then). Took a while to figure out it wasnt my tuning, but I had air leak. Took a while longer to figure out how to FIX that.
After fixing air leak, Installed a Motor saver and header to go with the tuned pipe that came with the truck. More abuse as I tuned THAT set up. WOW! FASTER now! May have run it lean a few times (not purposely) as I screamed it WOT up and down the parking lot I used as a Drag Strip. ( Didnt really understand how BAD that is for these engines.) This doesnt EVEN take into account all the BAD crashes and abuse that happened as I learned to Control the damn thing.....and drive in a sensible manner. KUPPLER shouldnt be laughin either, cuz he was right there with me Laughin his ass off.
All the while I was reading the forum threads. Do you know that there are AT least 200 PAGES of Volcano threads. Then there are Buggy threads, Parts Mod threads, FAQ threads. I Read em ALL (every single one that had ANYTHING to do with the Volcano). I went all the way back to the first post. Ehroof was PISSED at Redcat on account of the Crappy Spur gears and clutch springs. Remember THAT? I read it 3 months ago even tho the posts are 2 years old.
My point is that even with all that Knowledge (info overload) I still didnt have any EXPERIENCE, and I made rookie mistakes. Im now on my Third Vehicle. 2 Volcanoes and I just got my Monsoon,( Im gonna open the engine and inspect/clean it before I run it) and things are much smoother now.
I have some experience now, and I have even been able to help out a few peeps with problems like I had. And Yeah, that first Volcano engine is still runnin Strong! These little engine are pretty Tough! They Last if you STOP ABUSING them.( Of course I shortened the life of this engine and it s my own Fault).
So...what im sayin is,,,,if you blow your engine after only 1 gallon of Gas, Its not a manufacturing defect, Its not cuz its a cheap engine, Its cuz you DID SOMETHING WRONG. Do some research and get it right the second time around. And dont tell me about all the years of experience you have,Blah Blah Blah, cuz everyone makes mistakes. Heck , I bet even Ehroof has blown an engine or two over the years, but I bet he doesnt make the SAME mistake twice. And neither should we....

lol, who me, i never blew an engine