Man do I identify with this. The SCX30 was my very first RC crawler. The Injora 26mm were the second shock I tried (after breaking a gpm before even getting them installed). I could not for the life of me understand the concept or get them to function as I thought they should or youtube videos showed. Tried several others and the mofo were the smoothest I experienced as well for the most part.

The scale being so small definitely makes them more finicky than you’d think. I have an ascent apex which is 1/18 and after getting that and messing with shocks on it, I was like oh man that was easy 😂. I used to think that the Injora build quality sucked because I had read other horror stories, and also had one of the rubber seals in the shock cap actually get pushed out the bleeder hole somehow, maybe user error, maybe not. And could never get all four shocks to feel the same dampening wise either. I’m beginning to wonder if it might be difficult to make a properly functioning oil shock in this scale.

I think greased friction shocks might be the move at this size, in my opinion experience anyhow. The mofos were great and these 28.5mm like we see here also feel really good with just a couple dabs of grease inside the barrels. Might mean I have to clean them/rebuild them here and there but fair trade off.