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08-30-2008, 09:10 AM | #1 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: frederock,maryland
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| tuning with different shock oils
I was wondering if there was a particular viscous shock oil thats generally ran on a comp chassis.I have a reign k2j-tt and was debating on changing the oil to something else.What would be the advantages or dis advantages to going thick vs light? I have knowledge in this department when tuning buggies and on road cars but changing oil/pistons on crawlers is all new to me.
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08-30-2008, 11:48 AM | #2 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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speedemall, your question is a little general and not knowing what your running exactly it's hard to answer. I like my fronts to compress and rebound quickly and my rears slower. I use Losi shocks and oil. 10 weight front and 35 weight rear white springs front and red rear. My rig is almost 7 pounds with heavy wheels. I hope that helps.
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08-31-2008, 03:04 PM | #3 |
Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Yuma
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I am running 60 in the rear, stock it the front. It might be a bit much, but I wanted to slow down the rear. On a mostly stock AX10 , forgot to add that. Last edited by Reflection; 08-31-2008 at 03:19 PM. Reason: tedmales forgot info. |
09-02-2008, 09:02 AM | #4 |
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imho the terrain youll be ringing plays a big roll on how to set up your oil weight it seems like more and more people are using lighter weight oil in the front compared to the rear personally i run droop w/ no springs and i use 3000 wt diff oil in the front and 5000 in the rear, i like to keep my shocks pretty slow for added traction. w/ the shocks being really slow i tend to break more parts because of the added stress. Last edited by NeXt559; 09-02-2008 at 09:07 AM. |
09-02-2008, 09:21 AM | #5 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: frederock,maryland
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I switched to 25 front and 40 rear from 50 all around.For some reason now the truck tends to lean to one side a little bit when stationary
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09-02-2008, 06:54 PM | #6 | |
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firmer springs may also combat the lean when i ran a conventional spring set up id always use super soft springs and really light weight oil (10 wt), the "lean" was one of the reasons i switched to droop | |
09-02-2008, 08:22 PM | #7 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: May 2008 Location: Murrieta
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I have found running heavy oil in the rear combate tork twist and almost act as a sway bar in some ways. I also put the rear shocks as far out as I can
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