crashed_1

Hahahaha...here we go again.

crashed_1

Join the club. I'm doing the exact same thing, only mines a NTC3 and a 710. I find them both quite different but fast nonetheless. You'll appreciate the 710s ease of maintainance. Not as easy as a NTC3 but close. But there is one thing they have in common...THEY ARE BOTH LIGHT....

InitialD

InitialD

Too light !

Sow&Steady

I wouldn't go with the G4 if I were you, at least with the 710, it is as smooth rolling as a shaft driven car

Sow&Steady

... except that you'd have to drive a TC3 as if you ARE in the car ...

... perhaps then, you'd end up having dto do more maintainance on the TC3, which is a pain for "rough" drivers like most of us ...

Sow&Steady

That's ONE good reason for you to use the Al shock bodies !

cyba888

I got a question regarding shocks. Building shocks is got to be my worst nightmare. Everytime I build them I bump into problems! When you fill the shock oil and put on the cap to tighten it, is the oil suppose to leak out so that you know you filled it enough? Before you put on the springs, when you push the shaft into the shock is the shaft suppose to push out by itself? Mine always gets stuck in there! I have to build it like 5 times to make it bounce back out. I know you have to let the air and stuff but is the shaft suppose to come back out once it is compressed without the springs?

Solara

iTrader: (17)

No...no oil suppose to be spilled out, building shocks is a skill, and building SERPENT shocks required a 5 years professional college degree and a 2 year master degree (LOL)....take your time, building a good shocks are the most important step (at least for me that is)and you can tell the performance of the car when you racing your car.

Also...after you seal the cap and the shock chamber, before putting the springs on, push the shaft in, and the shaft MUST push back out SLOWLY....if your shaft does not push back at all, that means you don't have enough oil inside, or your shaft push out immediately or cannot be push in, you are too tight inside with too much oil or too much AIR.

Yes, it is pain in the butt.......took me good 18 years to learn how to build a good shocks, and still, I think I haven't build one PERFECT shocks yet, but just good enough for me to race.

cyba888

Hey thats a nice pipe you got there My friend has the same pipe, is it made by Shark? BTW where did you mount your on/off switch for the battery?

serpentracer1

And after you build your shocks you should throw them on a Losi shock tool to see how closely matched they are.

Solara

iTrader: (17)

Hmm, must be new to Serpent......Serpent dropped the ON/OFF switch thing since Impulse PRO 3 years ago...all you can do is plug and unplug the recevier pack connector, and you should mount the male/female plug on the side of the car and atleast double side taped the female plug next to the recevier.

Well, you can still add the ON/OFF plug if you preferred that way, again, you can double side taped the switch any place that you want, but there are just no dedicated place for ON/OFF switch on any Serpent car anymore.....

Thaasman

This is where i put mine...
So i can easy switch on/off when body is mounted..
Offcourse on is UP so it can't switch OFF during racing.

PUNISHER

iTrader: (2)

That is crazy....at the bottom of the chassis!?!?!?



Here is a safe place for an ON/OFF switch......above the chassis.

chachi

This seemed to work for me:

1) Make sure that the plastic pistons are free of any extra plastic left from manufacturing. The edges should be smooth.
2) Fill the shocks with oil and cycle the piston a few times to get the air out.
3) Let the shocks sit for a few minutes to allow any more air bubbles to come to the surface. Cycle again.
4) Push the piston almost all the way up into the shock body.
5) Press the rubber seal into position. This should spill excess oil out of the shock body.
6) Press plastic cap onto the rubber seal making sure to keep the seal tight.
7) Place aluminum ring over the plastic cap, all while holding the plastic cap tight against the rubber seal.
8) While still applying pressure to the plastic cap and seal to keep the seal tight, slowly tighten down the aluminium retainer ring.
9) Once the aluminium ring tightens down onto the plastic cap, make sure the plastic notch is lined up with the notch in the aluminium ring.
10) Tighten down and clean of excess oil.

The key is to keep the rubber seal tight to the shock body, otherwise air gets in the oil.