Top Twenty Five Pit Tips

Clear The Markings: If you’re a racer, chances are you have multiple sets of tires with different compounds.  The problem is that it’s easy to forget what compound is what.  Mark the inside of each wheel with the compound using a marker so you can easily see what you’re grabbing.  You can keep the marker […]

Keeping Warm: I zip-tie a piece of aluminum foil over my nitro motor to keep it warm on cold days.  This is also a good trick when you are breaking in a motor and need to keep temperature in the head while trying to run a rich mixture. Liam Cahill – Salt Lake City, UT

Cotton-Swab Grease Applicator: Use a cotton swab to grease your vehicle’s rotating parts.  A swab will allow you to apply grease lightly and evenly, and you’ll make less mess. Brian Park – Florence, AL

Super-Secure Outdrives: It isn’t unusual to lose the drive pins in a buggy’s center CV driveshafts when the setscrew that holds them loosens.  Here’s a way to avoid this: slide heatshrink tubing over the outdrives to prevent the pins from sliding out if the setscrew loosens.  As a further precaution, put heavy-duty liquid thread-lock on […]

Photographic Memory: Don’t sell your old low-megapixel camera on eBay just yet; keep it in the workshop to snap pics of complex parts you might otherwise forget how to reassemble.  It’s also nice to have a non-precious shooter in your pit box for spotting paint jobs or snapping blackmail pics of your buds. Elvis Machado […]

MOBILE CAMBER GAUGE: When I’m at the track, in place of a camber gauge. I use a free angle finder app on my smartphone to make setup changes. CHRIS TRANGSRUD – TEMPE, ARIZONA