Cheap Shock Retainer Spacers From Home Depot

[DemonRC1]

Hey guys, I gotta give credit to Moo for the idea on this, however, I've found some Nylon spacers at Home Depot that fit perfectly.


The 3/8" OD spacers on the left are a perfect fit inside the retainer. You can cut a 5/16" piece and drill it out to fit your shaft. If you drill out the inside with a 3/16" bit you can screw them onto the end of a phatdad 4.8mm shaft. When you screw the shock end on it will push the piece up onto the shaft nice and snug and it won't move when you need to pull the retainer back to remove the spring.


The 1/2" OD x 3/8" ID spacers fit perfectly over the shock end to prop the retainer up so that it doesn't rub the arms. I cut mine to 1/4" length but 5/16" or 3/8" would prolly be better. You can see the final result in pic #2. I paid $1.85 for the spacers. It was good for me because I didn't have any large OD rollcage to chop up for the retainer spacer.


One last thing. The nylon is dyable. Worst case scenerio is you can Sharpie them black.

 

[kryptonite5b]

i had those in my hands today at lowes. was getting some E-clips and rubber gromets for the drive shafts. guess i'll have to go back and get them.

 

[kaztheminotaur]

What isle are they in at Home Depot?

 

[yolonda21]

Thats a good fix.........its just to bad that the shock ends on the hpi shocks aren't replaceable....damn hpi

 

[DemonRC1]

What isle are they in at Home Depot?

Found them where all the nuts and bolts are. They are in the drawers. Ace has alot of nylon spacers too but not the 1/2" OD ones with the 3/8" ID.

 

[kaztheminotaur]

Is that 3/8 ID for stock shafts or Baja shafts?

 

[Clubin]

Good find, now we realy don't need any one to make up shock shafts.

 

[DemonRC1]

Is that 3/8 ID for stock shafts or Baja shafts?

The 1/2" OD x 3/8" ID spacers fit over the shock plastic end piece to prop the retainer up on the shaft to keep it off the susp arm. So that spacer doesn't care what shock shaft you are using.


The 3/8" OD spacer is the one that goes on the shaft itself to hold the retainer centered. You just drill that one out to whatever diameter shaft you are running.

 

[kryptonite5b]

now we realy don't need any one to make up shock shafts.

wait.. you meen someone was suposed to make shock shafts?

 

[DemonRC1]

wait.. you meen someone was suposed to make shock shafts?

once upon a time...


in a galaxy far far away...


somebody was supposed to make shock shafts

 

[kryptonite5b]

6mm hpi's with rezzies for vol comp might be going on my TT if fatslacker doesn't pull his finger out soon

you wont be disopointed with the 6mm hpi's. i put them thru the ringer and there great. but you will really want to put rear shock bodies up front to compinsate for the longer shaft so it doesn't smash on the top of the shock cap..

 

[DemonRC1]

6mm hpi's with rezzies for vol comp might be going on my TT if fatslacker doesn't pull his finger out soon

I'd run em too if the ends were replaceable. Wish you guys would listen to me and just run the Phatdad front 4.8's for the Baja.

 

[DemonRC1]

Couldn't we just thread em down further and cut off the extra length so we can use the Rampage stock front body?

 

[kryptonite5b]

I've just listened, it'll save over 100 bones with the 4.8's...I'll get the rear shock bodies and make a tower extension to get the same amount of up travel

im using the rear shock bodies up front with some interior modding. i get full travel and my chassis will bottom out.. its hard to explain, but i'll try. i put the piston spacer on the bottom of the piston instead of the top. i then dremeled out a few mm's of the brass bushing so the piston spacer slides inside. i also shaved a very small amount of the TOP of the hpi lower shock cap. that fixed my "UP" travel. to get the "LOW" travel with out bottoming out the shaft, i did away with the thick loc-nut and used a thinner nut from the hardware store and removed the excess theads at the top of the shaft. i then removed a VERY small amount of plastic from the stock shock cap. i now have full travel and take advantage of it with 30wt oil. i don't think it affected its over all strength and the piston nut wont come off as i boogered the threads when i trimed the shaft..


i really wish it was a bolt on fix. but doing both rigs(8 shocks) was cheaper then doing one set of the unavalable phatslackers..

 

[csp1971]

catchaser: Just used the spacers tonight. Installed the front Baja shocks w/6mm shafts on the rear and moved the rear Rampage shocks to the front w/6mm shafts.


Great mod. Thanks for your input on the shock stuff. Everything is smooth. Now I need some bicycle inner tube to create my shock covers.

 

[cboogie1]

Thats what I used


Catchaser,I did the same fix because I run the Hpi fronts all the way around.Only thing I did differently was that I took the 3/8 OD spacer chucked it in my drill and used some sand paper while its spinning to take a little off the outside diameter so it slips inside the 1/2 OD spacer.Now that was an impressive run on sentence lol.