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New to Rc cars - trying to get the tower Rc entry levil car started with no luck. Here is the deal- engine seemed to flood making it impossible to pull the starter coil.
Closed the needel valve , tried to clean out the engine with dry pulls. Removed glow plug turned car upside down to see if I could get any excess fule out . Tried to pull start with glow plug removed and little sprinkles of fuel come out of top .
If we get it to run it runs very low and we can not get it to stay on . If its running low I try to make very tiny turns of the needle valve but cant seem to hear change in engine rpm. Lastly if we get it to run low and turn on radio the slightest change in the throtle shuts the engine down. Please help its for my 11 year old son . Thanks again

Qlone

If it runs low, it's probably because although it runs, it's still flooded. I don't know if you have a one or 2 needle carb, but rotating the high speed needle does not change the engine RPM when it's idling. Idle speed is adjusted using the low speed needle and the idle adjustment screw.

Have you tried starting the engine while giving it a little bit of throttle? If it's flooded or near flooding this may clear out any excess fuel in the engine and it will run after this. If my engine has starting trouble I just turn off the radio and set the carb to half open by hand. Then fire it up. If all goes well it will start at low RPM and after a lot of stuttering and other nastyness (including a lot of fuel/oil coming out of the exhaust) it should pick up and run normally. Then adjust the idle speed so that it keeps on running without flooding itself.