Show us you Sweet Shackle angles 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[J Mack]

For @bobm

 

[RUSH55]

Oh Mylanta - how did you find that?!?

Yeah man! Had that since way back in the day. I think ol’ pal @RHINO gave it to me.

 

[PabloCruise]

Yeah man! Had that since way back in the day. I think ol’ pal @RHINO gave it to me.

There is another page, correct?

 

[RUSH55]

There is another page, correct?

Several pages

 

[PabloCruise]

Several pages

That was a hint

 

[bobm]

I checked out their website while you were typing and they look like an OE style shock that retails for $200 each for their "Twin Tube Nitro-Gas Shock Absorber".
FYI: "KYB Excel-G shocks" are also twin tube gas shocks and can be bought for around $35.00 a shock.

Think I'd stick to Fox, King or even Bilstein if I was going to "upgrade" my shock package.

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Had dual KYB's front and rear on my mini truck. With that and a very large jump bent my front axle

 

[bobm]

Who TF da stirrer wit brought this up again

 

[bj70bc]

^^ W the actual F ^^

 

[RUSH55]

 

[Ol Yeller]

^^ W the actual F ^^

You’ll get used to it…must be a Pig thing

 

[Mark W]

Oh Mylanta - how did you find that?!?

What? You don't have the Nov-dec issue 1998 in your personal TT archives?



Mark...

 

[bobm]

I got 4wheel&offroad mags dating back early 90s maybe earlier

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

Here are mine. I’m wanting to get a shorter shackle on the front to drop the lift about an inch or so. That should increase the angle toward the front.

 

[Combat Wombat]

Ive been looking at 'lowering shackles' or similare solution recently too. I need to do some big maintenance items and the garage ceiling height is too low!
One solution is to put some 205 45 R15 tyres on my spare set of rims.
I was going to investigate if there is a shackle with multiple mounting configurations that would allow changes in height (similar to triangle shape?)

 

[RUSH55]

Here are mine. I’m wanting to get a shorter shackle on the front to drop the lift about an inch or so.

Love ya Mike.
But you might have some other issues to deal with before worrying about those shackles.
Have you done much wheeling with this Cruiser?

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

No, I’ve just got it on the road. What issues do you see?

 

[greenbeast]

No, I’ve just got it on the road. What issues do you see?

Indeed, what’s up?

 

[bobm]

**** here we go again

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

I’m good. Not gonna hurt my feelings. It’s helpful to have more eyes on our rigs.

 

[RUSH55]

What issues do you see?

It’s possible we’ve been over this in your thread. The hexagonal tie-rod caught my eye.
Don’t know if it’s an optical illusion, but it looks like the pitman arm nut is nearly touching the tie-rod.