Shock piston circlip fail

[Crazy L]

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone else has had the dubious experience of the circlip at the top of the shock shaft coming off?

This happened the other week. I was driving my TC02T around my local (Torch) as a few of us now have trucks. Please bear in mind also this is a brand new build and was the 1st time It had turned a wheel on the ground. It's also not the 1st kit I've built as I've been doing this since 1990.

Alas, I digress...

Front end of the truck was just boingy boingy like I had no oil in them. I did find the shocks leaking at this point and thought maybe all the oil had pissed out and the lack of damping was the cause of the boingyness.

So took the shock apart to change the o-rings which I were knackered, only to find the situation described at the top of the page. Piston at the top of the body, and a circlip enjoying a swim in fresh 30 odd weight oil. This was on both front shocks.

So, any others care to join the pinging piston circlip club?