Male Speaker1: Here are the eight E-Savage Shock absorbers. The first thing I did was to check through each of the shock absorbers to see if any of them had leaked and just try and work out what the problem was. I think, this is because the stock o-rings don’t seal against the shaft very well. So the aim with rebuild is to replace these o-rings and I'll be replacing them with better quality silicone o-rings. Before rebuilding the shock absorbers, I would clean them by scrubbing them in a normal washing up liquid just to remove any dirt from the outside of the shocks.
Male Speaker2: Okay, we’ll go here with one shock absorber. So what we have here is the Muchmore silicone o-rings. These are 40 weight so these all have been pre-soaked so they’re nice and plump and we’ll see it quite a while. You can see it’s 10 in there. For the eight shocks I’m going to need 16. I’ve got another packet. So, the other thing I’m going to use is some shock slime.
So this is the Muchmore shock slime in that little pot. This is the goopy silicone grease. What is left on those you coat the o-rings in the shock slime and the shaft in the shock slime, so as the shaft goes in and out, because the shock slime is thicker than the oil, its small eyes keep them sealed and the one that they all pull out.
The first thing we're going to do then is to take the cap off. So inside the cap we have an o-ring. So the o-ring seals the plastic cap to the shock body and you can see in there, that’s the old oil. It looks pretty full. It also looks very firmy. There is lot of there in that. So I’m just going to go and bring that oil out. Take it from here, we also need to take the head off, so I get the piston right out.
Male speaker1: I had some problems here with the small pair of pliers so I changed to a large pair of pliers to just do the job.
Male speaker2: Take a small piece of paper, wrap it around the shaft. Big pair of pliers, screw hard, you can just hold the screw. You just need to -- so they're the stock o-rings which are not very good. So, with a cotton bud I'll just clean out as best as I can. Okay. So let’s put that back to go. So we need some of the ring there to the new ones and some shock slime. Here’s my shock slime. Use clean end of a cotton bud, just scoop some out.
Male speaker1: Here, you just need to put some of the shock slime in the end of the shock body and on the o-rings.
Male speaker2: First one is going into the black one and then through the new. Put all the new ones.
Male speaker1: More shock slime in and around the end of the shock.
Male speaker2: I’m going to screw them back on. So that’s the new o-rings in, it’s all ready for rim. Good shot! So the shaft also needs to be slimed up. So put some on the thread. This helps to protect the new o-rings as you push it back through. So I’ll put that back in. You can see, the first slime is in there. I'm going to work it up, here’s a whole lot smoother.
Do this before. Now there is a modification we want to do in these shocks. I want to make them slightly shorter so that the shaft doesn’t come out as far. So I don’t want the shaft that long, I want it that long. Hold out to lower the shot, pull the handling little bit and we'll go from there. So how I’m going to do that is instead of having this spacer outside of the shock, I'm just going to put it on the inside of the shock.
I’ll put that back up. Here we go! That’s one rebuilt shock absorber. All I need to do now is refilling with oil, cap point back on, spring putting back on and we fit it into the car.
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