So a PS2 Challenger I bought a while back on the forum was doing ok but has a few issues that I'm about to attempt to troubleshoot and fix. I figured I'd run this past you guys first to see if anyone has any insite on this before I open her up tonight.
Ever since I got it, when I have the smoke on and blow the horn at low speeds the marker lights flicker and it slows down a bit while blowing the horn. If the smoke is off everything is fine. I'm hoping its just a bare wire touching something and an easy fix.
But last night while running it, it was doing ok as I left it running for about 5 minutes.... then all of the sudden it accelerates to top speed (maybe) and I quickly hit the DIR button to stop it which it does. So I figure that was an anomaly and throttle it up to 25/30 again. After a few minutes it suddenly accelerates to a super fast speed and then trips the MTH Brick's breaker. I wait a minute and push the breaker and it trips immediately. I try this twice more and then take the engine off the track and try the breaker and it doesn't trip again.
So, first I'm hoping the engine isn't toast. I put it back on the shelf the rest of the evening and ran my old weathered Y6b.
It seems I heard of this problem before a while back but I couldn't find the thread. Anyone have any advice?
