New Shackles

[zhanx]

Ok its offical i bent one the driver side one on rocky mount loop at ure to with LBarr and Crew. SOOOOO... time for better ones.

Thinking about the trick round ones i saw online/magazine/somewhere made out of 1" tube. Whatever i do they need to be stronger than the 1/4" steel one i just bent somehow. LBarr i forgot to ask you what ones you were running before i left.

Also new bushings. Anyone got a good way to change these out? Need to change them.

And lastly. Front spring hanger. Seems i like to smack it alot on the trail. Since i am not going full width no run to move them. Any ideas on how to get them out of the way? i am gonna do my SOA this coming weekend and take a couple of leafs out to make it close to level slash crank the front up a little more. Anything for now since the front hopefully with come out soon..

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

warriors?...i think they are 3/8" steel....

 

[section525]

Warriors don't have anything on the new Section525® shackles! :

3/8" with 15+HP speed holes.

 

[Burns]

Dang Section. Those are good.

 

[cloaked_chaos]

Warriors don't have anything on the new Section525® shackles! :

3/8" with 15+HP speed holes.

Man you should sell a lot of those. You can custom make some coil spacers and sell it as a kit. I would buy one. (when I get the money)

 

[zhanx]

ummm wow.. gee thanks make me feel bad about my welding skills and fab skills. But i am gonna do some anyways.. gonna order an pair of M.O.R.E. bushings and make scissor shackles that are beefy and i hope look that good.

Not fair i tell ya.

 

[JIGAWHAAT]

Warriors don't have anything on the new Section525® shackles! :

3/8" with 15+HP speed holes.

Nice work!

 

[section525]

Nice work!

Thanks! I'm actually working on another set right now (yes we're in the garage : ).

 

[redranger4.0]

ummm wow.. gee thanks make me feel bad about my welding skills and fab skills. But i am gonna do some anyways.. gonna order an pair of M.O.R.E. bushings and make scissor shackles that are beefy and i hope look that good.

Not fair i tell ya.

Scissor shackles, I hope you dont mean like revolvers?

 

[Mud Bug 94]

yea they suck...

 

[zhanx]

yea revolvers sucks i like automatic pistols......

no i dont mean them, when the bushings come in i will show you.

 

[redranger4.0]

yea revolvers sucks i like automatic pistols......

no i dont mean them, when the bushings come in i will show you.

You mean boomerang shackles?

 

[zhanx]

hope they don't mind me linking to their website

just in case website is here

gonna build those myself.. the revolver shackles pictured here

might be a tab bit hard to make

 

[redranger4.0]

i would really rethink that design. They have really bad unloading problems. not to mention when they do "open" theres no more weight on the springs, aka no more weight on the tire, and no weight = no traction.

 

[zhanx]

top ones not bottom ones and they have a pin to to keep them together while on road. like a wristed link on a radius arm..plus no pivot.

 

[Mud Bug 94]

you can make them by using ranger shackles and explorer shackles together...

 

[redranger4.0]

top ones not bottom ones and they have a pin to to keep them together while on road. like a wristed link on a radius arm..plus no pivot.

my other post still applies nothing I said applies to the road it all applies to the trail.

 

[zhanx]

so their just good for the rti?

 

[redranger4.0]

so their just good for the rti?

Yea, they can get scary on the trail. Specially on downhill sections they have the tendancy to unload, and its not a gradual thing its usually a fully closed to fully open sorta thing. And as I said above, once they do unload while flexing there is no more weight on that corner so they have very little traction.