Shock Tuning Tutorial! (RC Basics #8) - How to tune your RC shocks, springs, oils, pistons

Extremely comprehensive walk through. I definitely have a deeper understanding on shocks, how they work, and ways to tune them. Excellent video.

Quick, concise, well spoken - Not much else I could ask for when coming into this as noob.

Very informative and to the point. Easy to understand and well explained. Great job, thank you.

Very informative 👍 I always learn something from these type of videos!

Great video! I’m a beginner on RC world and I find your tutorials so so useful. Thanks for having the time to share your knowledge. If you were so kind to answer my question I’d be very grateful. For my hyper go 1/16 shocks how often should I replace the shock oils and what type of oil should I use? (I run my car 5 times a week on off-road mostly. Thanks again and best regards.

From my automotive perspective this explanation is solid

Your tutorial videos are super helpful Thankyou mate

You probably should have used the opportunity to clear up some myths. I dont know how many ppl( youtubers even running a channel several years) still think that you can change the stiffness of the spring by compressing it with clips or threaded retainers, when in reality you only affect ride height. Only difference being progressive springs. I even get into arguments and ppl tell me im wrong and im only left shaking my head.

great vid, thanks. I want to know, generally speaking, when do you want slow shocks, when do you want fast ones?

Thanks for the info. Actually working on some shocks now for my Rally. Appreciate it.

No offense here, brother, and I'm sure it's been said before. I hope you got on a pill to clear up your thumbnails since you made this video back in June. Great videos, by the way.

Would have been nice to know when replacing the shock oil how much oil to put in the shock.

Great explanation, thank you 😅

Great video with lots of info! Thx

Mine shock are different, i have spring inside my shock, do i need oil than? So i have one spring outside and one inside the shock

Hi there thanks for the explanation. Say a piston has 8x 1mm holes And a piston with 4x 2mm holes. Wouldnt this he the same level of compression?

I'm always struggling with shocks. I've been in the hobby for 2 years I always get the springy bounce on my RCs and the thing I get frustrated on.

loved the shock video

Thanks for your quick rundown but, I’m still confused on when you would want lighter or thicker shock fluid to how soft or how hard of your springs. I have a Traxxas Maxx and due to not jumping it real high, I tend to keep it on the ground so what’s the best way to keep the shocks soft enough so that they absorb and flow over the bumps but not bottom out or drag the chassis from hard accelerations, braking or small jumps? For the longest time I had the V2 stock springs but with stock shock fluid, it drug the ground and bottomed out a lot but, it also handled good on rough terrain. Increasing the shock fluid weight to 70 rear, 50 front, it didn’t bottom out/chassis slap from fairly short jumps but the suspension wasn’t able to flow with the rough terrain and was too bouncy. I’m kind of thinking I need far more stiffer springs but maybe a 50W shock fluid all the way around. Is this what I want for better handling and traction without so much spring preload to maintain proper ride height with less bottoming out and undercarriage dragging?

Really good info thanks.