Manda's (Amachan) RC Adventures
New Lizards! ?
I got some new lizards, these are not for Warhammer, they are for my RC truck. These are 90mm Yeah Racing Desert Lizards with an internal spring rather than an external spring that coil-over shocks that came with the truck have. For 90mm shocks they are a bit longer than I expected.
Initially I went for the single hole piston head on the piston, rather than the 4-hole one that was installed by default. Mainly because the original shocks also had 1 hole. I removed the bottom and top spring that was installed by default with a medium longer top spring for a sprung setup. A sprung setup is basically your traditional setup. I chose that spring because it felt just a bit stiffer than the one from the original shocks do. Filled it with the same 500 cst oil that I used before and then I got these installed on the truck, but it was feeling very stiff.
So this was way too stiff, after some fiddling around and testing stuff later I settled on a droop setup (where the suspension is basically limited by its travel down by another spring) using the lightest springs included. I also changed the piston head to a 3-hole piston head and these are working like a charm.
Look at that flex!So I went out for a test drive until I broke something again…. Easy fix this time though. I am really loving these shocks they are working great and I really need to get some for the front as well.
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