Originally Posted by
Johng322
This may be a dumb question but are you sure it isn't some sort of thermal protection kicking in? I say this because those kits are notorious for not rolling smoothly. There can be binding from the front gearbox being misaligned. (This was a problem with early kits and rtr's that associated dealt with but you could have an old one.)
Also the front belt can rub on the motor pinion causing drag. The fix to that is to mount the motor in the lower holes but then you run into having to make it fit in the lower holes. I cut up my chassis to fit a novak three-80 motor. My original reedy motor got way too hot no matter what pinion I ran. It takes a good bit of careful running and checking to loosen everything up without overheating the motor.
no i dont. i have a fan running on the motor with a heat sink. making the motor at about 110 and the esc below 100.
but i did have that problem with belt hitting pinion. my fix was i dremeled the heck out of the pinion and the chassis to put the motor as low as possible. that truck is the smoothest thing you would every drive. took me hours and hours of figuring out how to fix that problem and a lot of testing.