Why Your Nitro Engine Won't Start 

The glow plug coil has a thin coating of platinum on it. This platinum is a catalyst that helps make additional heat during the compression stroke. If the platinum wears away the engine will run while the glow plug is heated by the battery, but won't sustain combustion temperature when the battery is disconnected. Also, if an engine losing enough compression it will not develop enough heat in the combustion chamber to cause ignition when power is removed from glow plug....Al Scott

@21:12 you cracked me up. "Its fiddly,... so F-ing get used to it. SOOOO True. But the thing that gets me most is the glow plug. Air/fuel ratio, ok, compression, ok un blocked air flow in and out of the engine and these things WANT to run. But the glow plug can glow nice and orange with the battery, but, when ya pull the battery the engine stalls.

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Great video mate keep up the good work so easy to understand.

Great video!

Cheers pal great vid

cool video as per usual dude .........👍👍

Great vid

a hot glow plug number 3 lits up faster then a cold number 10 . the hotter glowplug is the better !!!

Also worth checking your idle screw gap,seen people trying to start an engine with a fully closed carb,only other reason I can think of is your low speed needle is too lean not letting enough fuel in or too rich otherwise you pretty much covered it good video👍🏻

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I'm struggling to get my xtm xcelerator started iv got a spark and fuel is flowing ok it's all priming ok ? But one problem I have is the throttle arm isn't connected so the throttle only has a tiny gap its a rotery carb and I can't adjust it for sum reason! It's missing the the little af sized nut that fastens the throttle olarm in place I have on on order fro Italy so waiting for that to arrive but was hoping to get it started as the fuel arrived today but it wont start ? Im guess I need to rotate the carb some how so that it's open ?

I have a question I have a CEN NX 15 nitro engine but don't know what glow plug it needs?

You can blow into the exhaust tonunflood an engine to, doesn't taste nice but it works 😉

Good tutorial video. I have a question What is the factory settings on a nitro car with the carb settings and tick over screws As I have messed around with mine and rc car just zooms off by its self after using easy start to get it going. Glo plug OK and hump pack fully charged got nitro fuel going in

My gxr wont start it was running fine the other day today it kept firing but not running so i returned all needles to factory settings and now it doesnt even give a sputter.. I am afraid i damaged the engine because a few days ago the air filter fell of and i didnt notice. I searched for the filter and started it up at home with a good filter it ran perfectly fine... Today the weather was a little bit warmer but it shoulf have fired right up. My glow plug works perfectly too. Any ideas?

I can't get my T-Maxx classic to start with the igniter plug what would be the cause can you let me know

My HPI Savage F4.6 motor refuses to start after I run it nice and hot. Is that an indication of a worn piston sleeve, or is there something else I can do to get the damn thing running again?

My car is idling so fast that if the rear wheels aren't on the ground, it takes off and revs at almost full throttle.. what should I do? Please help 🙏

I know this was 2 years ago but is there anyway i can contact on the phone or anything with help tunning my tornado s50 redcat

I have a nitro car after enjoying it up and down on the road it cuts out and will not start again and its not over heating

stupid question: how do you know the engine is at BDC to drain it if it is flooded, do you have a mark on the flywheel or something? or can you just guess, how do you know? The flashpoint of Nitro is 35 degrees C.

I am not new to Nitro but I am having an issue I haven't seen before. I just got a Serpent SRX8 RTR Buggy and I have no problem starting it but when I remove igniter it dies. I have checked the glow plug and it's good, I don't have any air leaks, the only thing I have noticed is when it was running it seemed lean. There was blue smoke coming from the exhaust but no oil. I am going to try again tomorrow and richen up the LSN, if that doesn't work I have a new engine I can put in and try that

Hey there, haggard. How is it going? Greetings from New Zealand

I’ve got an OS 46cc helicopter engine. I’ve tried everything there and it’s still not starting. It was flooding and I found the problem to be the servo needed reversing as it was trying to start full throttle. However I rectified that today. But still no luck. Glow plug is fine, new fuel and it’s obviously getting into the engine. It seems to have good compression as it’s broken the shear pin on the starter shaft twice. You can hear it try and load up as it’s spinning on the drill but it just won’t fire. The needle valve is set as per manual. I believe the gap is right on the carby. Kind of lost with this one. Is there a way to actually check the compression even though you can feel the air coming out of the exhaust when trying to start.

Hello just wanted to ask a question I have a HPI savage x 4.6 and the engine head is smoking you can literally see loads of smoke come out the engine do you know what I should do about this as I am worried I am going to fry the engine and how do I get the temperature to go down Thankyou

Why won't my pull starter pull at all? It's no stuck out and gears move freely forwards and backwards.

Yeah hi mate mine has got compression mine has got a good glow plug and fuel and where the so it's not blocked I have got cereal glow plugs I have tried but I haven't got the only thing I can think it could be what the glow plug screws cos it ignites it doesn't it and keeps it alight you know if you know what I and it's the same ftx that you've got

Hi, I bought myself a nitro car for xmas, i done all the prep work, and sure enough without fail it started bril..... then i adjusted a screw on the low end of the engine to try make it idle slower,,, big mistake now it wont start, i took it today to my local rc shop left it there 3 hours they said all done charged me £24 quid, took it home still wont start at all again :( i have primed the engine, charged the starter and the glow plug is fine,,, please pleae help :(

I can start my engine it idles but when i give it the smallest of movement on the throttle it cuts out , it will not rev , stops dead

Do you have social media I can contact you off to show you what mine does

Is it difficult to mess up the threads screwing a glow plug in

ARE GLOW PLUGS ALL THE SAME

My nitro buggy starts but when i rev it the engine stalls i dont know this issue pls help

Why can I see the moon during the day sometimes?

My car is hard to start. Pulling the starter is hard. The engine give me a lot of feed back, looks like its getting suckt vaccuem. Sorry for the bad english i

Why won’t my car not turn on I tired most of the stuff but the problem is for me I can’t get fuel in the exhaust pipe please help

My Nitro engine redcat s30 isn't starting the engine fuel is not getting pushed

Would you like a 1/16 kyosho inferno nitro ? For free

Do you run your car on a track???

My RC won’t start I need help it’s nitro

Glow plug might be a bit gay😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Stupid question?