RC8 motor problems, can you help?
I received our new RC8 RTR today. It started right up and ran fine. The first thing I did was to run two tanks of 20% through at an idle. After filling the tank for the third time, I inserted the starting shaft into the back of the motor, squeezed the trigger on the starter, the starting shaft spins but the motor does not turn over. I made sure that the shaft was inserted all the way into the back for the motor, tried again, but the same problem. I pulled the motor from the car and I am able to turn the motor by hand from the gear on the front with no problem. I removed the 4 screws that hold the back on and removed the back from the motor. Nothing looks broken. I put it back together, making sure that everything was put back the way it came apart. I held the motor in my hand, put the starting shaft into the back, pulled the trigger and it is still doing the same thing. Any ideas on what may be going wrong here?