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well since i cant sell my rc10 gold pan i guess i will put it back to a stock buggy. were can i find front and rear shocks for my gold pan? Will a b3 or b4 shocks work? i also need front shock tower and body with wing. and front and rear tires. if you are wandering it was set up for dirt oval.

Are you using .71s on all 4 corners or just on the front?

PM either way, I may be able to help you locate some.

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will the threaded shocks off a b4 work? or is the shaft to long? i would like to kind of update the old buggy a little.

what front shock tower and a-arms are you using?

scr8p wrote:what front shock tower and a-arms are you using?

Rpm front and rear arms and stock front and rear shock towers. if i can still buy the towers. my buggy has the speedy dirt oval conversion. so i will be needing the front and rear towers. i am going to change it back to a buggy. but i dont have the parts yet to do so.

if you use a standard 6 hole front shock tower, the b4 shocks are too long. the shafts are the .71's, but the bodies are .89. atlas (a member here on the forum) makes a carbon fiber shock tower that is taller to use the b4 .89 front shocks. he makes a carbon fiber rear tower also, which uses the 1.32 rear shock. the b4 rears are 1.18, so they're too short.

another thing you can do, if you wanted threaded shocks, on the front, using the lower holes on a stock 6 hole tower, would be to use tc3 threaded shock bodies with .56 shafts (i did this on my 870c). the tc3 bodies are .56, just like the buggy shock bodies. then you could just pick up a pair of threaded 1.32's for the rear.
the only company i know of that made threaded .71 bodies for the associated shocks was bulletproof r/c. but, they've been out of business for a couple years now. i tried to get some of them before that happened, but they were out of stock.

scr8p wrote:if you use a standard 6 hole front shock tower, the b4 shocks are too long. the shafts are the .71's, but the bodies are .89. atlas (a member here on the forum) makes a carbon fiber shock tower that is taller to use the b4 .89 front shocks. he makes a carbon fiber rear tower also, which uses the 1.32 rear shock. the b4 rears are 1.18, so they're too short.

another thing you can do, if you wanted threaded shocks, on the front, using the lower holes on a stock 6 hole tower, would be to use tc3 threaded shock bodies with .56 shafts (i did this on my 870c). the tc3 bodies are .56, just like the buggy shock bodies. then you could just pick up a pair of threaded 1.32's for the rear.

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the only company i know of that made threaded .71 bodies for the associated shocks was bulletproof r/c. but, they've been out of business for a couple years now. i tried to get some of them before that happened, but they were out of stock.

Hey Thanks for the info. i think the front shocks are tc3 but not sure. how would i mesure them to make sure.

you have to measure the bore of the shock body.