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not going to do a shackle reversal?
good to see your still alive mike! hope school is going well, Mechanicl Engineering, right? i'm green with envy, you have access to all kinds of nifty tools and equipment. hehe i might just hit you up and try to con you into making something for me if'n you can.....we'll see what i can do on my own first.but i digress...
no. no shackle reversal. i really have no scientific reason why not i guess. i thought about it quite a bit though. i noticed most of the 4wd vehicles that really had to perform had shackles in the front. look at all the older WW2 and Korean war vintage trucks: shackles in the front. also i want to divert any movement away from oil pans and body or whatever.my uneducated guess also made me feel that having a pivot point in the back would contribute to more axle wrap(something i have a vauge but nagging concern about) i guess i figured some other folks had allready put a lot of thought into the design, and who was i to second guess.
probably the biggest reason is i didn't really see the need. I like getting out in the wild and wheeling a bit. but i dont do it all the time. i really doubt i'm gonna be taking this thing up anything hairy enough to worry about aproach angles. and lets face it....the lv isn't the best vehicle to try to turn into a serious rock rig.....the thing is a small bus, with waaaaay too much overhang on the back end so departure angle would be the thing that kills me. i hear that i can improve road handling though, and i'll be spending most of my time on pavement. but everything being everything....i just couldn't see what it would do for me...besides, i think it looks meaner and tougher with the shackles in the front.
i really have no justification for my decision. it wouldn't have been any harder, or much more work. its just that everything i've read never really lead me to believe that a shackle reversal would make anything much better. i couldnt find any rock solid arguements for one. i've never really seen any posts here or anywhere else that were like...yeah, a shackle reversal would make that problem go away, or not having a shackle reversal made this break.i can tell you i dont have any real experience driving a rig with a reversal...so i couldn't tell you if it makes a big difference. but all the vehicles i had with shackles in the front did just fine for me. i'm sure folks have an opinion on the matter.....i wouldn't presume to anyone they are wrong for doing or not doing a reversal, but i'm sure there are plenty of other posts where all the vagueries of shackle placement have or can be discussed.
good to see your still alive mike! hope school is going well, Mechanicl Engineering, right? i'm green with envy, you have access to all kinds of nifty tools and equipment. hehe i might just hit you up and try to con you into making something for me if'n you can.....we'll see what i can do on my own first.but i digress...
no. no shackle reversal. i really have no scientific reason why not i guess. i thought about it quite a bit though. i noticed most of the 4wd vehicles that really had to perform had shackles in the front. look at all the older WW2 and Korean war vintage trucks: shackles in the front. also i want to divert any movement away from oil pans and body or whatever.my uneducated guess also made me feel that having a pivot point in the back would contribute to more axle wrap(something i have a vauge but nagging concern about) i guess i figured some other folks had allready put a lot of thought into the design, and who was i to second guess.
probably the biggest reason is i didn't really see the need. I like getting out in the wild and wheeling a bit. but i dont do it all the time. i really doubt i'm gonna be taking this thing up anything hairy enough to worry about aproach angles. and lets face it....the lv isn't the best vehicle to try to turn into a serious rock rig.....the thing is a small bus, with waaaaay too much overhang on the back end so departure angle would be the thing that kills me. i hear that i can improve road handling though, and i'll be spending most of my time on pavement. but everything being everything....i just couldn't see what it would do for me...besides, i think it looks meaner and tougher with the shackles in the front.
i really have no justification for my decision. it wouldn't have been any harder, or much more work. its just that everything i've read never really lead me to believe that a shackle reversal would make anything much better. i couldnt find any rock solid arguements for one. i've never really seen any posts here or anywhere else that were like...yeah, a shackle reversal would make that problem go away, or not having a shackle reversal made this break.i can tell you i dont have any real experience driving a rig with a reversal...so i couldn't tell you if it makes a big difference. but all the vehicles i had with shackles in the front did just fine for me. i'm sure folks have an opinion on the matter.....i wouldn't presume to anyone they are wrong for doing or not doing a reversal, but i'm sure there are plenty of other posts where all the vagueries of shackle placement have or can be discussed.
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