How often you change the shock oil?

[vrooom]

How often do you change your shocks oil? I found setting I like, just wonder how often i should change oil on my car?

[bretts]

As like me you're happy with the set up. A refresh every couple of months, as part of the maintainence routine wouldn't hurt.

That's what I seem to do, when cleaning the shocks, do the oils as they are off the car etc....

Others may have a different approach but I'm just a club racer.

[neallewis]

Depends on the surface you run on. On dirt it gets contaminated really quickly, and the o-rings get clogged up with oily gunk which reduces the efficiency of the shock as a whole, affecting performance of the car. It's really noticeable when they go "off". On astro this happens less for sure. Indoors, I find on cork tracks like Worksop they eventually get pretty dirty with black rubber particles and dust, which do contaminate the rear shocks (more than the front), but not as quickly as on dirt for sure. I try to keep my shocks clean with a brush off after every run and a thorough blast with the compressor at home after each meeting.

If I'm happy with a setup I tend to leave it for a few meetings or more in the indoor season. Outdoors I find I run on different tracks or perhaps tuning a new chassis, so tend to change oils more often.

If you strip your shocks down and the oil is really dirty, inspect them sooner next time.

[mattr]

Started off by chucking away loads of almost immaculate oil. Now ichange the oil about every 2 months.......

[Col]

There's supposed to be oil in my shocks?

[mattr]

Running without is good fun.

As long as you have no oil in any of them.
One empty shock makes life a little too unpredictable......