Shock oil and how to service?

[no1zeppelinfan]

Got a V5 6s from new a few months ago, serviced and re-oiled the diffs, does any servicing need to be done on the shocks? Are there any better shocks even though I think these ones are quite good? Any advice is appreciated. tia

 

[Jordan10R]

Got a V5 6s from new a few months ago, serviced and re-oiled the diffs, does any servicing need to be done on the shocks? Are there any better shocks even though I think these ones are quite good? Any advice is appreciated. tia

Socks are pretty good out of the box. And changing fluid is simple.

 

[Yas]

Shocks don't need as much maintenance as the diffs IMO, although the manual advises the same for each, after ~20 packs (5 hours) of run time. There's not much need to touch them unless you want to tune them or if they start to leak

The stock 6S shocks are more than capable. It'll be hard to find better shocks out there. Most will be a downgrade!

Replace any worn out or torn o-rings with the genuine Arrma ones (although they should last a very long time), and pack the shock cartridge with o-ring grease. I use Buzzy's Slick Honey grease, others use Associated's Green Slime

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

Socks are pretty good out of the box. And changing fluid is simple.

Great, what strength oil, someone said 1300cst?

 

[Jordan10R]

Great, what strength oil, someone said 1300cst?

What rig is it for?

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

What rig is it for?

Kraton V5 6S BLX

 

[Jordan10R]

Kraton V5 6S BLX

Stock 80w is what I run seems to do the job

 

[BashTillBroken]

You could consider getting the m2c shock oil package I own it and it’s saved me so many breaks lands smoothly after 30 foot high jumps etc

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

I would but I'm in the UK.

 

[BashTillBroken]

Badtouchbreakerz
Here ya go
Please click me for parts

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

Badtouchbreakerz
Here ya go
Please click me for parts

Can't find any oil kits on there. Good site though, cheers

 

[BashTillBroken]

I sent a link just earlier press the red text it’s a link

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

Can't find any oil kits on there. Good site though, cheers

Great, thanks. What weight oil do you use?

 

[BashTillBroken]

I run light for preformance but for hard bashing I would run 90 in the front and 80 in the rear thats usually what I use for bashing and that works

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

I run light for preformance but for hard bashing I would run 90 in the front and 80 in the rear thats usually what I use and that works

Great, thank you for your help.

 

[SrC]

Great, thanks. What weight oil do you use?

1,000 cst = 80w (aprox.) FWIW. I would stay with whatever Stock cst is first.
I would first Check the manual or the Arrma Gigasite for this exact info.
You always need to know what stock oils are before changing to differnt CST/weight. For a baseline reference. Whether diff's or shock oil.
You can very easily, and dramatically alter the shock pack for the worse. My spin. Changing to different cst is trial and error and many do because they have changed out springs and/or have a specific reason to change oil thickness and change the shock pack.
Just, if you have no reason to change from stock cst , don't.
Stocker 6s shocks are known to very durable. Short of user error.

 

[no1zeppelinfan]

1,000 cst = 80w (aprox.) FWIW. I would stay with whatever Stock cst is first.
I would first Check the manual or the Arrma Gigasite for this exact info.
You always need to know what stock oils are before changing to differnt CST/weight. For a baseline reference. Whether diff's or shock oil.
You can very easily, and dramatically alter the shock pack for the worse. My spin. Changing to different cst is trial and error and many do because they have changed out springs and/or have a specific reason to change oil thickness and change the shock pack.
Just, if you have no reason to change from stock cst , don't.
Stocker 6s shocks are known to very durable. Short of user error.

Great advice, thanks. Like I said I like them performing the way they do as they are. Just looked them up, They are 1000cst. So gonna order some of that.

 

[Monster Dork]

Stay with stock oils. Change pistons first if you need it. If you added weight to your vehicle, going with thicker oil will only help compression, and jack up rebound. Better to address vehicle weight changes with spring preload to keep comp/rebound in balance. If you go with heavier oil, get the M2C pistons to help keep your rebound from being too slow/packed. If all you do is jump and never rip turns, you can do whatever you want to get results, but if you like running loops and handling well, you really have to watch what the car is doing to decide what to change as far as shocks go. There is method to the madness.