[Driftwood]

Hi. Are you new to nitro buggies like me? I wonder if you did what I did. I decided to "fiddle" with the carb when I first got mine and as per instructions wound the low speed needle valve in till it stopped and then wound it out the correct number of turns. It was a pig to start after this. It struggled to pull but seemed ok when the revs got up. It wouldn't idle for long and sometimes stalled when whacking the throttle open. It ate glow plugs.
I discovered that I wound the needle in too far. Even with minimal force, it went in so far in that it opened the throttle and that the needle was so far in it probably blocked the jet until full throttle was used.
To get the correct setting I wound the needle all the way out and held the throttle shut using light pressure on the servo link and looked down the carb' to make sure. Then I carefully wound the needle back in till I felt it stop and cheked the throttle still hit the idle stop when closed. This is my start point for setting the carb'.
It could be that being new to nitro power I was "ham-fisted" during my initial "fiddling" and you are not, but I would check this anyway. Correcting my mistake solved my problems instantly, and restored my sanity after spending ages trying to get it started and running right.