Pro Tips with Jilles Groskamp – Part 1
The first in a new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from the pro drivers, we hooked up with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver Jilles Groskamp to get some insight into how he prepares his race winning Tamiya TRF416WE. In this first video, Jilles tackles the perfect shock absorber, from stripping to rebuilding. Future episodes, which will be shown here and also on our YouTube channel (see link next to the search box) in the coming weeks, will tackle the ball differential, final assembly and tweaking of the chassis.
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1. josh p - July 16th, 2009 at 07:04
i have always been curious, if your shocks have un-equal rebound after being rebuilt jilles says to rebuild them, but does that mean dump the fresh oil and start again or just add more oil and remove all the air again?
cheers
2. Michał Abramowicz - July 16th, 2009 at 08:32
Remove a little of oil -> just un-turn a little cap and turn it again,
some oil will go away, but not a big drop or drops, only a little.
You must play with it, after few times, you got good result.
:)
m.
3. RC Market - July 16th, 2009 at 08:57
good & nice !
4. stokka - July 16th, 2009 at 09:51
When looking on a good bartender serving beer I tend to copy the technique with tilting the glass eehh shock to avoid letting to much air in when filling the shock.
5. panda - July 16th, 2009 at 10:18
Thx Jilles, great vid !
Will he actually run that DF03ra ? ;)
6. YoKoMo-MX4 - July 16th, 2009 at 16:09
Nice! Cannot wait to see more.
7. P1 Brand - July 16th, 2009 at 18:19
Excellent webisode! Well done.
8. Roelof - July 17th, 2009 at 15:16
Next time a better microphone ?
But cool that a toplevel driver does share his “secrets”
9. panos from greece - July 23rd, 2009 at 17:42
very good and effective.
where we could find and we also device to take the air;;;
10. Calvin Kirby - July 28th, 2009 at 16:10
thank you!
i learned alot from this video i can now make the perfect shock!
i have been struggling with shocks for a while now.