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Is there a tool to use to help take off the tops of the Kyosho gold shocks (to avoid scratching them up every time with a pliers)? Kyosho had the included tool for the smaller red shocks with their unique design. I saw a shock tool for modern shocks, but it seems too big. Thanks for the help.

I have never had them on so tight that I needed a tool for them. Usually, I would stick a round Phillips screw driver about the size of the shock eyelet into the cap and hold the clean body with clean hands and open it. Works like a breaker bar, almost. If they are on so tight that you can't get them off that way, holding a freshly cleaned shock body while wearing a rubber glove, then opening using a driver in the eyelet usually does the trick.


Then don't make them that tight again when you rebuild them.

good idea - thanks Eau Rouge

I take them on and off by slipping an Allen key inside the hole and turning. That gives you more than enough torque.

You mean you have been using a pair of pliers on the cap to break it loose?

no no no ,you put the cap in the vice then that free,s up both hands for the channel locks

Don't worry, I don't use pliers. I did that once a long time ago and realized it messed them up.

treehugger wrote:no no no ,you put the cap in the vice then that free,s up both hands for the channel locks

LOL