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Originally Posted by muratti
EXACTLY what i experienced. 
Regarding the X- RIngs i used them first time on my 511 and saw from the beginning that i had to shim them. Did it and from standing on the shelf since a month or so there is absolutely no leaking and they feel much smoother than the standard o Rings. I have to race them for a couple of times to be 100% sre they are free from leaking but so far it looks all good.
So if you want to use X Rings you MUST shim them or they will leak. A shame Tamiya doesn´t provide any info regarding the shimming on neither the packages of the competition blue rings nor the X rings. |
Hi bud
As i said mine didn't leak until I ran the car after they had been shimmed! Going to try another 0.3mm shim and see if they still feel smooth.
The TRF shim kit shims are a bit too thick for fine adjustments and the diameter of the 3mm metal Tamiya shims are a little too small to spread the load over the entire x-ring. Going to experiment with them this weekend.
I remember Jilles Groskamp posting on a forum that his Tamiya TC shocks leaked with the blue TRF orings fitted. He still used them because they were the ones that felt the smoothest. Those guys were rebuilding their shocks every couple of runs.
Its only 10 minutes to rebuild a set of shocks, i do them when im charging my cells
