Shock Oil

[DaveG28]

Have been going through my spares looking for oil and something just occured to me: Are different makes of shock oil based on the same scales and "comparable", eg I have much more 250, Lodi 27.5 and tamiya 300, I've always assumed thatwould just be 25, 27.5, 30 respectively, but is that the case?

[Lowie]

nope it isn't

if you google you might find tables comparing different brands of shock-oil

[Arn0]

Here you have one!

Others exist for sure

[stegger]

Great charts shame there's no schumacher shock oil's on the oils chart

[Kecky]

Ha Ha Ha i was just thinking the same

[Lee]

That might be because people think its not very good

[RogerM]

might be because no 2 bottles areever the same, certainly my experience.

Back in the day Roger Cull told me to just pick a brand and stick to it as thy are all different. Since then I've run exclusively AE oil expect for a brief spell with Losi cars when I used their oil.

[ginger fixit]

shock oil whats that?

the seals dont stay in my associated shocks long enought to worry about oil weight

LOL

[stegger]

Is that really the case of the schumacher shock oils ?

[Fabs]

I don;t know but I would assume that the guy who did the measurements wasn't provided with some schuey shock oil, might even never have heard of it...

[MattW]

Many people always have a pop at Schumacher oil. All I can say is that as far as i know, many of the team use it, so it can't be all that bad. I've had the odd bottle that hasn't "seemed right", but out of all the bottles i've had - if it's only the odd bottle then i'm not too concerned.

It's likely that any setup sheets that you see on the schumacher site are based on their oil.

The "wt" measurement is an interesting one, because in reality i'm not sure it means all that much. Hence as someone posted above, it's a good idea to stick with one brand. Oil is measured in cst. Some brands are starting to sell oil in cst now. Although talking to some of the touring car guys that test an obscene amount of stuff, they say that even across brands, using a recognised unit, it isn't consistent across different brands.