Comfort Shackle/G-shackle/Double Shackle

[-MaTTi-]

Have anyone seen these or even drive with these? Any experience? I didn’t found any decent review or pictures how they move (fully extended/compressed).

Would these work in 40-series with lift springs? Could these help if shackle angles are bad?

 

[White Stripe]

Poor shackle angle is usually due to incorrect shackle length or improperly made leaf springs. Those might work but I bet those aren't cheap. A pair of decent leaf springs is like 300 bucks.

 

[Downey]

The two problems I see are:

1. When your spring falls down into full droop, the shorter inner shackle will also fall downward giving the rear differential "far" more droop. Problem with this extreme droop is you also need a shock absorber long enough to handle the extreme droop, and a shock that long is it's top mount would probably have to be mounted somewhere up inside the vehicle cab ???
2. I don't see an anti-cam feature built into those shackles, consequently once the inner and outer shackle do go into full droop, then upon compression I don't see anything to prevent the shorter/inner shackle from merely flipping rearward, then damaging the spring once compression is unloaded down upon it ???

 

[pb4ugo]

Those remind me of the Revolver shackles offered yrs ago. I remember a bunch of folks using them, and I had seen mixed performance results. I decided they weren't for me.

 

[-MaTTi-]

Those might work but I bet those aren't cheap.

These are quite cheap, but made for Hilux:

I think I’ll make some own versions of those, I could use shorter shackles but get them reach when needed. Some limit brackets for preventing those problems Downey said.