Wheel and Shocks question from Paris, France

[AtomuSan]

I there!
I am a freshman from France where RC crawling is breaking trough
You guys are a bit advance on the rock crawling question so I do have some (questions) for you
I bought a BJ 40 from Tamiya and already changed and lot of things (motor, speedo, links, planetary, servo beds, shocks arms) but still have 2 major problems: I would like to change my crappy wheels for aluminium ones from RC4WD. Can you please help me help me with the size, I thing 2.2 is ok but not really sure it will fit my tires
Second and more important: shocks absorber
there are no options at the moment and the originals are the crappiest thing i've ever seen. What should i get?????????????????????????????

Thx in advance for your help

[theonek]

the stock tires are 2.2 so any rime you get will work as long as its 2.2

[njrockcrawler]

i gave these a shot and fit fine. 4" or 101 mm eye-to-eye, low cost up grade with coil-over spings if needed and different sping rates(white,yellow and green, white being the lightest). I removed canti setup
and attached to side frame and same spot as original ball cups on axles


http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXAMU6 shocks


http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXAMU4&P=M

note: bushings need to be drilled to fit stock screws, i used to to attach to upper ladder frame and used plastic "D" parts #5 as washer on top of shock asm. just use stock ball cup for lower mounts at the bottom.

good luck and have fun