Shock weight questions

[spawn47]

Hi I have a wraith spawn just Ordered some 110 mm king off-road shocks is there anybody out there that can tell me a good all-around oil weight to use, also does anybody have a link for the proper way to fill the shocks it has a faux/reservoir (what ever faux means). I've done it quite a few times I believe I'm doing it right letting it sit getting all the bubbles out but if someone could send me a link to watch would be great thanks also does the shock get done any differently with a reservoir. Or does anybody know if the king shocks reservoir is even real or is it just for scale

[crawlhog]

30 weight oil is a good starting point

[maslin]

Send them back before you even open the box. The "scale" King shocks are not suitable for a Wraith.

The bigger Slash king shocks are alright, better options for the price though. Look at the Gmade or Proline Powerstrokes (not the scalers)


Faux=Fake. Not real reservoirs.

[Drm31078]

I like this video from Pro-line. It took me a few tries to get consistent rebound on all of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5sBN7U3cjc

[spawn47]

Thanks for all the help

[Hal]

Faux means fake. The resevoir does nothing but look scale like a coilover on a fullsize rig. You will not be happy with them on that heavy of a rig. I know from experiance, I had them on a Bomber. I went right back to the stock shocks. Eventually I went to Traxxas Big Bores. They are not a bad scaler shock though.

[bmf24]

i have the king shocks on my bomber and it work pretty well with 90 weight oil. I can drop it from 2 feet and it soaks it up with no bounce at all.
works pretty well at speed and crawls well.
They still leak a little but for now they work fine until i get something better.
My wraith I run proline slash shocks and those just flat out work. great shocks.

[fyrstormer]

I have 20wt oil and stock springs in my Wraith's shocks. Keep in mind most of the really heavy stuff on a solid-axle vehicle is unsprung weight, so the shocks are mostly there to reduce torque twist; they don't do much actual shock-absorption, so you can get away with really thin oil without the shocks bottoming-out during "flying dismounts" off rocks.

"Faux" means fake. The reservoir is just a hollow tube that isn't connected to anything. You fill the shocks the normal way.