A collet quandary sorta solved Nitro engine repair Picco small block 6mm crank collet modification

Here we modify a common 7mm clutch collet for use with a 6mm crank found on older Picco small block engines.

[@RcOffroad9513]

Hey nitro brother, love your content! Keep up the great work!

[@RcOffroad9513]

If you have, or can find, or make a 6mm inner and 7 mm outer spacer to put on the shaft, before putting a regular 7 mill collet on it, that could work? I have tons of collets, spacers and washers, and all kinds of parts, lol I'm like you, I never throw any part away, because I feel like I will need it some day.

[@tarekkhoury5384]

Blows my mind how much parts you have ! Great fix for this issue

[@kristiandigruccio]

prova a contattare direttamente l'azienda picco ! sicuramente sapranno aiutarti ed avranno qualche rimanenza !🙂

[@jeremighmason7019]

You should cut just at the tip and leave the back side

[@anytimeDrumvideos]

Use a pop can to make a shim maybe. I make cylinder shims out of it all the time.

[@Thedudeabides803]

Great Video sir.👍💪

[@cbh148]

Todd, you da man!

[@aimlockersesp7680]

Thats true and a good tip from you todd but this is rc you can make things fit its not that hard to make custom things for me if something not fit and i can make it fit or make some custom things and it fits after that it feels like i won a lottery

[@philv9054]

Good morning, Todd. Again, needing your nitro engine expertise please. I acquired a bumpstart 8 port hyper 21 w silver cooling head in great condition besides the lack of compression. ive been searching for a replacement piston and sleeve for this engine with no luck yet. Do you know if any other piston and sleeve from other engines will fit the hyper 21 8 port? if not i will try to repinch. Thank you so much and always looking forward to another video!!

[@NitroTalkwithTodd]

@@philv9054 A hyper 3 port set might be an easy answer, but I was thinking. They made these engines for a long time, the silver head version is newer than the old purple cooling head version. The purple was one piece integrated head button head, do the silvers have separate head buttons? It would be interesting to see if the old 3 port and the new 3 port sleeves are interchangeable. Good chance they are, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[@jayp9299]

Maybe a sleeve inside the collet?

[@philv9054]

Hello from NY Todd! Really really enjoy all your videos! I recently acquired two mega zx21 nitro engines. I think they may have association with picco. My question please is do you know anything about these nitro engines. I don't know whether I should keep them or sell them. Thanks you!!

[@NitroTalkwithTodd]

They are picco based engines, made in partnership with Serpent. They were never super popular, so replacement parts are going to be very hard to come by. Other piccos of this era had rod issues, although I've never heard that specially about these. I world say they are great collector's items, and if you decide to run them they do cook. I would say they should only go up in value, especially if new.

[@philv9054]

@NitroTalkwithTodd thank you for that info. I'm gonna run one and keep one in the collection. I do have a spare rod as well for the new one so I guess im set.

[@rcsendandblast1579]

This is Wonderful now I can fix my Picco small block 👊😎 Thank you so much for the help to figure this out I Indeed did do as you said and to my amazement I have my picco on the bench soon to be running in my old RC10 GT 🤓👍👍 Thank you very much 😊

[@NitroTalkwithTodd]

Love to hear it!

[@rcsendandblast1579]

@@NitroTalkwithTodd Thanks to you the hobby today just got a whole lot better 😎👊

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