T-Maxx Engine Rebuild & First Fire 

Rebuilding my old .15 tmaxx now. Haven't ran it in 15 years. Bought it back in 1999. You shoulda seen the look on the peoples faces when I brought it to the same hobby store I bought it at 22 years ago. Total blast from the past.

Great job! Just bought a used T-maxx and am in the process of rebuilding... I'm a pure amateur at this stuff these videos are THE best I have found on the interwebs - you are extremely thorough which helps a ton! thanks!

Hey thanks for the breakdown. Thought I was going to have to take it to my local hobby shop. They can’t touch it for two months. Seeing this I’ll gladly tackle getting my old t max x back up and running.

I got my block for 18$ hoping it'll run as intended shattered my connection rod and tore up the sleeve aswell as bent the crankshaft i thank you you helped me a great deal

I have a truck for many years. I honestly don't think it has 10 hours of play time on it. I had children and I put it away. He it is 16 or so years later well I think I would change over to all electric. I think that the electric car etc have come a long way. Thanks for sharing this video with us.

Emery cloth is a little excessive on the crank! Use a scotch bright pad at the most. Now your engine will leak oil even worse then before. Even with a new bearing. Might take a bit but it will leak!

what is the brush for lol

Also another cleaner u can use that works very well.. if u have any old or contaminated nitro/glow fuel it'll work fine and removes paint too (higher nitro contents work better than lower ones.. old 20% nitro is fine, 30 is even better!)... but for after run maintenance DO NOT use WD-40 (it may work ok for short term but long term it's terrible.. WD-40 has kerosene in it and will evaporate too.. ALWAYS use after run oil and I hear also a 50/50 mixture of Automatic Trans Fluid and Marvel Mystery Oil works as an after run oil which I never tried but heard Adam Drake does with good success.. personally I use actual after run oil.. shame Prather after run oil isn't made anymore, wonderful stuff!)

My traxxas t maxx doesn’t even suck fuel, even when I prime it, it had compression and glow plug

I prefer to soak and clean the parts in ether. It lifts oil and dries immediately. I find WD-40, even the WD-40 white grease attracts a lot of dust. Awesome video though. I learned a lot. Thanks.

Is that a 1.5

Just from watching your other video for the first time and now seeing this one. You sir have a subscriber.

Yeah, I got a newer one too, exept the guy never tuned it, soo it ran way too rich, and didnt know how to drive, but the 3.3 runs great and I'm happy, it was a steal for 50 bucks i must say!

I just switched my EZ start for a pullstart. For some reason the battery would die within seconds and it would only crank the engine over slowly. I might buy a new motor one day and see if that solves the problem.

I need some help I have a tmaxx 2.5 and I think my electrical is screwed up because when I hit the throttle it steers and I know I have all the wires hocked up right but I am missing the shifter servo would that have anything to do with it

that had a good amount of pop!! I like it! Man! makes me wanna just try one nitro buggy out!! lol

Thank you for the help but I got ride of that truck I went a bought a revo I had to buy a 3 channel receiver but the car has two steering servos and a throttle servo do I need to buy a bigger receiver for both the steering servos work at the same time

Subbed to you..reviving my tmaxx after sitting for sooooooo long,happy holidays to you n fam🙏

was it cold when you started this? it didn't look like the clutch liked the temperature by how the truck was jumping

U put the piston in backwards

Love your motor rebuild. I was just given a t-maxx 2.5 r without a remote control from my brother-n-law. I plan to rebuild the motor using this video. Do you have any ideas about how to obtain a new remote control. Thanks

the brass piece inside if the needle snapped, and i bought a new tmaxx 2.5 on ebay, it is very nice, only ran a half gallon of fuel through it but i was going to put the batteries in the battery box, and the pack where you clip the batteries in, and the pack is gone, i was hoping you could make a video of how to change the packs between trucks, i was going to take the one off my other truck but i dont know how, if you could make a tutorial, that would be great thanks again, bigmom lol (im a guy)

hey man, what way is the flywheel supposed to turn? im hooking up a pull start on my truck i dunno if i have my one way bearing unside down or backwards or whatever. thanks .

Great job again Tony. It lives again.... soon. The truck look likes it's chomping at the bit to get outside at the end lol. Is that a trim adjust you need to do?

Wow what a deal! You saved $18 on a $25 block! Unreal!……

Can you link the race formula 12:29

i had that on my truck, the low speed needle broke, any help? just an easy answer please, i know about the site, ill check it out

can someone link me to a video on how to tune this kind of truck but a 3.3 engine

Thanks Olot kip on with your videos 👍🏻

Left you a comment on a new 2.5 is seized ! I can work it back & forth but it will catch TDC. Should I pull it apart before a break in or is that normal ? Don't want to strip out easy start gear's .

Thanks for these well documented videos on the T-Maxx! What year is ir? Any good resources on it or a link to the original manual online somewhere? I got a box of old truck gear given to me from a friend including this exact t-maxx but he didn't have much info on it. He was trying to convert it to brushless after he bought it but then gave up, now I'm looking to rebuild it since the original parts are in great shape, just totally disassembled.

what is a good high torque servo for the t maxx

what is the part # for the tubing and were did you buy it

that was an aftermarket Con Rod. That is not an original TRX rod. I know there are two companies that make a beefier rod. Nice work. Are you still RCing?

So take both steering servos and wire them into one

the old truck was a .15, i ran out of space, i think the text restricter is kind of stupid, but thanks for listening to my pointless "story" i guess you could call it, these things are so cool! ill be back though, im sure something will break, i registered on the site, i will check it out every now and then, THANKS!

I have the tmaxx 3.3 that is getting a rb tm523 ive had issues with rear diffs stripping would a locked axle solve the issue or will it cause other issues

hey, i fixed to the new truck, me and my buddy who knows more than me at this, worked on it, and we got it working. i stripped the wires down on the headlight power wire, and the receiver wire, we didnt know which was which, and he gave me a pack from another buggy so we power tested, and found it. anyways, its fixed and im going to use the old truck for parts, it turns out it was a .15, not a 2.5, mistake! but i havnt ran it yet, and it was my birthday yesterday so im eatin my cheesecake, Thnx!

Congrats man, nice work there, that motor sound like it's brand new :D

I still have my first T Maxx. Its probably about fifteen years old.

have a revo 3.3 and for some reason it wants to take off full throttle why

Is that a megatech??

Cái máy đó đưm về việt nam bán bao nhiêu dậy ta

When ever i start mine it takes off by it self and the throttle is closed and when i turn the top end screw tighter it revs up higher. How do i adjust my carb so it stop taking off by itself?

I need a little help. I have a traxxas Nitro 4 tec from a freind of my. I clean the hall car bout I want to know if the motor is good everything looks good bout I will have to get the electric starting that you use to start the car and the Nitro I don't know what cain of Nitro ore gas . I don't really know nothing bout RC cars iam starting to get on to. So please help me out.

What else can i put in my motar instead of after run if u dont got it

ok, at first I didn't remember the tmaxx .15 until I googled it

is the assocaited 8.0 mt a good truck

The big block would be faster if you have it tuned right.

What is the one way bearing?

thanks for the video.

Wd 40 does not lube u wrong

Is the any other way I can message u

Do u have that pipe number

Why would you even bother to rebuild a pro 15 engine it has too little power for a tmaxx truck

Carb cleaner works better!

HAHA, that's a pap smear brush

I got a used t maxx 2.5 for $10 from a friend who moved away

The engine

hpi racing 4.6

too lean but u sorted it

$65.00 you can new motor in the box!!!!

i can smell the smoke!

An engine for 8 bucks. Not bad.

Gynecologist use those brushes that's what they are for thats funny I snagged a bunch from my wifes doctor they're great for cleaning vaginas and small parts

U didnt show the hardest part. install the c clip 👎👎👎👎