Nitro RC Car Revival - Can We Start It After Sitting For 22 Years?!

With enough fear and brake cleaner we can start anything!

We found this old thing in a box in a closet and instead of just leaving it alone like a sane person, I decided to pull it out start messing with it. First things first - this is a Duratrax Maximum BX. It was originally sold by Tower Hobbies and this was the RTR version. While it has been sitting for years, it appears to be complete minus the body - though it must have had a second life as a saw dust collection system.

I started by replacing the dirty fuel line with a new line/filter combo from Du-bro (P/N 680). Be sure to open the filter up and make sure your filter screen is actually covering the outlet hole and remove all the little bits of aluminum leftover from machining.

Once that was all squared away, I topped her off with Sidewinder off-road fuel. It's a 20% nitro blend that's a little bit higher in oil content for more bashing protection.

For spark I was actually surprised it was quite hard to find a modern glow plug equivalent for the discontinued DTXG3001, DTXG3003 and the sorta available DTXG3005 but wrong temperature gold plug. I used the Dynamite glow plug as a replacement and it worked great for me. So hopefully this helps somebody find that a DYN2500 plug works great for Torq 12 or Torq 16 engines. Those engine are used in the Duratrax Maximum BX, ST and MT.

Finally we got her running and immediately flipped it - Now I have even more to repair... I'm gonna get her back together, swap out the aftermarket wheels and tires for the stock ones and try to find a body. If anybody has any leads on a replacement body for the Duratrax Maximum BX buggy or can recommend another body that fits it would be a huge help!

[blakelindsey]

Came to your channel from tiktok and just wanted to say I watched the video without seeing how many subscribers you have and I honestly was blown away how well the video was made. I thought I was watching a YouTuber with a million subs! You definitely deserve more subscribers and I think pretty soon this channel will blow up.

[Bubblesuk]

As a vet, the pug analogy... excellent and accurate

[hugocinco]

Nitro is for the rc guy who enjoys the challenge. I hope to get back into it eventually

[garrettfeury]

Got the maximum mt w the TORQ .16 engine when I was 15. Found nearest hobby shop at that time around 2001 in Salem VA which was 2 hours away and called them to c if they had the maximum mt and to my insane luck they had one in so of course I began to beg my dad to get it for me. About 3 weeks later I was on my way to pick up my first ever Hobby Grade RC that was NITRO POWERED! I was the happiest kid around, bet ya lol but it was very very hard to start, kept flooding it, wore blisters on my fingers but boy when it finally fired up the first few moments I was hooked, never knew about 2 stage idle and it much about how to tune it good, had lots of problems, but wouldn't change any of it for nothing.

[garrettfeury]

First nitro rc I ever had was the maximum mt.... had many issues and headaches but I was also 14 had no idea the proper way to tune a nitro engine, but when it was running it was so worth the downtime as well because I've learned from mistakes with it and I'm now 35 have a savage x and a losi 8ight rtr buggy and an axial spawn rock crawler and Mt wife and sons arrma granite and Traxxas stampede

[djayscarberry]

*the sawdust is factory, to filter out all the contaminates that aren't sawdust*
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Golden. You got me, I'll sub

[ciprianwinerElectronicManiac]

Just like my Hyper 7 yesterday, it started fine after sitting for more than half a year and then followed hours of problems, it ended with a broken rope.

[MyRcGoSlow]

Bruh all the work for 30 seconds Damm lolb

[Tony-M]

Sad to see there wasn’t a second video follow up on this. I’m pondering getting my 23 year old nitro car going again.

[rodc]

I wouldn’t recommend that oil your going to have to clean that out if you plan to put nitro fuel in w

[ellgwapo.]

That's! Rc old Car Nitro Brocken Run & again brocken.

[SargeScum]

Those pulls were gruesome close to breaking the cord... Too close for comfort.

[MIKEHOVIND]

been in the hobby for years, am now 21 .. might crack a case nd fire up the ol girls . revo 3 tree and that potato ( jato ) 3 tree 💀😂

[tonydetwiler]

lol you say its a 1998 rc thats my birth year yay

[MzanziRC]

Your video deserves more views and you more subscribers!!!! Your presentation is just excellent and the content very very cool. It was this video that got me interested in restoring old nitro RC's.

[nitrogas]

I revived my kyosho inferno mp5 from 1995, you can do it too!

[VintageCR]

forgot the gate was locked and its kinda rusted shut.. so... 1, 2, 3, 4.. you can never be to safe with your codes nowadays!
You cracked me up dude🤣

[GreatBirdOfHope]

Definitely used to be a duratrax maximum ST or BX. At first I thought MT, but the MT had a metal spur gear. This car has plastic. MT had torq .16. The others torque 12.

[dezjonjaleel]

his commmentary makes me feel like his mom forced him to clean his little brothers rc car lmaooo

[arturos.l.]

13:22 How the HELL did you start it that fast?? They Really don't make them how they used to, it takes my brand new one like 8 pulls