Need advice on creepr joints

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meigsrock

meigsrock

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Does anyone have any experience with creeper joints used on the rear leaf spring shackle end? Like in this link: Creeper Joint Shackle Mount | Toyota, Suzuki Samurai, and Jeep Off Road Parts

I would not mind some more travel but don't want too much body roll while normal driving. Still 95% daily driver. I am lifting a 92 pickup 4" and I think I am going to have to re-locate my shackle hanger so now is a good time to replace them if I think I want to switch them to creeper joints. Use for trails, mud, not a rock crawler.

Any advice, experience, or opinions needed.
 
Anyone have any info or experience with these creeper joints?
 
Yep, had them (well not TG's, orbital eyes) on my older truck. Never really noticed anything odd b/c under normal load I had side plates and the shackles were of a scissor design that located the assembly and stopped any excessive body roll. If I really got on it though and accelerated hard and fast while turning I could easily get them to pop free and get up on 3 wheels. (Older truck was almost a class-7 built up for tons of fun.) All that said I got better results with my custom built leaf pack with elebenty-bizjillion less service intervals needed.

For crawling vs. DD YMMV. Checked out the reviews here yet? It's basically the same exact topic from back n 2010: creeper joint shackle mount - Pirate4x4.Com

*Note, regardless of what TG want's to call them, it's an "orbital eye" or "Johnny Joint" shackle assembly. ;)
*FWIW I even thought (for about 2 sec's) of using them for the Runner's rear link assemblies.
 
Thanks for the input.

I am going to keep the stock bushing type for now because it is primarily a daily driver still. If it goes full 4x4 use then I will think about switching over to this type of shackle end.
 
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