i gota 83 rc and i been havin some problems with it starting and staying started sometimes it wont start at all somtimes it'll start and stay runnin for a few sec then die and somtimes it will start up and be just fine i've replaced the starting coil the balest resister but i just cant figure out what else it could be if anybody has any ideas it would be great help

 

it sounds like it is starved for gas at those points, does it just shut off or does the idle fall off and die?

 

it just shuts off im plannin on replacin the carbourator when i get the money for it and hopfully that will help out a lot

 

sounds more electrical to me, but maybe that will help, of course, if it aint gettin gas, it aint gonna run....

 

yea cuz if it wasnt gettin gas then it would be surgin but i just started it up and it was runnin as smooth as possible but the balist resistor was smokin and it was to hot to even touch wouldnt happen to know if its supposed to get like that or not were gonna try and trace the wires and see if maybe theres a short or somthin prolly gonna end up sellin it anyways

 

you change the ecu? you might try doin that, id also see how strong your spark is, take a good screwdriver and push it into one of the spark plug boots (remove the wire from the plug first) then HOLDING THE PLASTIC PART OF THE SCREWDRIVER hold the blade end of the screwdriver close to the exhaust manifold and have a buddy turn the motor over with the starter, if you see a spark then you should have good spark, if not it is something to try to fix, i dont want to just suggest buying a bunch of parts that may or may not fix it, but if you can find out waht the problem is it is way easier to fix...... just process of elimination

 

i think that there may be a short somewhere so im gonna try and trace it and see where that takes me if not then im on to somthin else