Alum Shock Caps...

[VVRC]

Something I learned the hard way and thought I would share....When replacing your shock caps with Aluminum ones...DON'T TIGHTEN them ALL the way down...leave about a 1mm gap at the bottom and use teflon tape for good measure. This can be more easily seen on the original shock caps that have those tabs about 1 mm in height. If you over tighten the shock caps you will ruin the rubber diaphragms inside OR it will twist inside and fall into the shock itself....making them useless.

[ksb51rl]

FWIW, the same advice goes for the (same) caps on the aluminum Big Bore shocks. Hard way, too.

[Porsche917]

Yes... Ruptured diaphram= I've found that out...

[Wookie]

Something I learned the hard way and thought I would share....When replacing your shock caps with Aluminum ones...DON'T TIGHTEN them ALL the way down...leave about a 1mm gap at the bottom and use teflon tape for good measure. This can be more easily seen on the original shock caps that have those tabs about 1 mm in height. If you over tighten the shock caps you will ruin the rubber diaphragms inside OR it will twist inside and fall into the shock itself....making them useless.

Need a crash course on these Aluminum Shock Caps. LOL

Haven't put on the Aluminum ones as of yet. But want to.

So, this is the way then, not to tighten down and keep the 1mm gap vs just putting them on?

When putting the shock cap back on, do you put the diaphram on the shock first or put it in the cap and then screw it on?

Or, would it just be simpler to go the Big Bore Shocks all the way instead?

Need to do something before I go and run my first real R/C Track with jumps and all. Don't want to be blowing shock caps. LOL

Any and all answers are appreciated.

[cooleocool]

When putting the shock cap back on, do you put the diaphram on the shock first or put it in the cap and then screw it on?

I put the diaphragm on the cylinder first.

Or, would it just be simpler to go the Big Bore Shocks all the way instead?

Well, I doubt that it would be any simpler to install new shocks. You will still have to fill them and install the new shocks, so it would likely be more complicated.