ilanstylz

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Well I decided to go out and run my MMGT, unfortunately the only nitro I had left was a quart of 20% Tower hobbies fuel my cousin gave me for free........ After a few minutes of running it in the backyard I noticed it starting to run very sluggish and wasn't performing like usual, so I checked the temperature and it was running 300+ temps....... Also I noticed this after I let it idle for a little bit (it was coming from the exhaust:




Then upon further inspection I noticed this on my MMGT:






I'm hoping it was just the tower hobbies fuel, and I hope that it didn't cause major damage if it is a problem......... I'm going out now to purchase some O'donnell fuel (which I should of did in the first place)

breezerboat

mine did the exact same thing, except it was after I put an OS#8 glow plug in it. I put the Odonnels #99 and it went back to working again. the 300+ temp really scared me. I know this doesn't help you, but it's all I know.

twomanytoys

Anytime you change fuel brands or content you have to retune. It will not run the same from fuel to fuel.

ilanstylz

My Feedback: (12)

Thanks guys, I figured it was the fuel and needed to be retuned....... I went out and got more O'donnell fuel so I'm about to go and run it pretty soon and see how it runs........

rclynx

Any time you change the manufacturer or heat range on the glow plug you need to tune to that plug also..............it can be worse than changing fuels sometimes [:-]

ilanstylz

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Yeah I learned that the hard way lol, I ended up changing out the glow plug and noticed that it wasn't running the same so I retuned it a little and it works greatttttttttttt.......... Thanks everyone

Fastsavage

I just changed fuel and glow plug...what a big difference the right combination makes, but yes, I had to do a complete retune as well started from factory settings and went from there, well worth the time and effort.