buggy Shocks on maxx, oil wt reccomendation.

[Stroytika]

i have been reading this forum and several others lately and i have to say i am very impressed with the knowledge base on the traxxas t maxx on this site. so i wanted to bounce a question off of you guys, if you dont mind.
I'm running a tmaxx with 8 Losi 8ight rear shocks on it. they have the stock pistons in them and have a 15mm bore, and plastic caps. i have the truck set fairly high and i am running big wheels. i usually run in the very rough stuff (rough grass with bumpy under terrain, and dirt pits). i am powering it with an lrp .28. my question is what weight of oil would you reccomend? i really want it to soak up the bumps like a king, and to be able to jump it 9 or so feet up with very light bottoming out if any. i was thinking of taking out the 40 wt i am running and putting in 20 wt. what do you guys think? because of the long stroke on these shocks will it still dampen the action enough to prevent damage?

 

[frickenjoey]

I was thinking more on the lines of 30wt. I am not sure if I would drop all the way down to 20 or not. I am pretty sure that would be way too soft and cause a lot of roll overs from excessive body roll. Jumping from that high i am not sure if I would want to do that with only 4 shocks either. Those are nice shocks though.

 

[olds97_lss]

You may want to see if you can find some soft springs for those shocks. Buggy springs are way stiffer than springs made for an 8 shock rig. I would find considerably softer springs and drop down to 30 weight or so.

I ran supermaxx shocks (modified OFNA 9.5 1/8 buggy shocks) on my maxx when I had it, but I only ran 4 shocks total. Pretty sure I ran 50 weight with springs that were fairly stiff that came with them. Much later, I bought 8 actual OFNA 9.5 rear shocks (with springs) and put them on my savage (aftermarket towers). It was stiff as a board. I could practically drop it off a building without it bottoming out, but it was tough as heck to drive since it just bounced all over the place. I now have normal old savage shocks back on it as I never really hunted for softer springs.