RatLabGuy
You look like a monkey and smell like one too
- Joined
- May 18, 2005
- Location
- Churchville, MD
At the 4x4Cross pre-run, I had a fun issue w/ one of my rear leaf shackles getting inverted - at full droop, the Procomp lift springs are just too short eye-eye straight distance for the OE shackles and the shackles hang pointing forward. Loaded, not bad... but at some (when airboard I'm sure) thr D-side got jammed up in front of thr mount.
(thanks again to Dylan, Johnny, and others for helping fixe that - twice lol).
So I spent the better part of last weekend cutting off the old shackle frame mounts, move forward about 2", then re-welded.
I picked the new location so that at full droop, the shackle would be just a hair inboard of vertical.
Resulting loaded angle was much better - D-side shackle sits at about 4:30 angle loaded. Beer time.
Fast forward to midnight Mon night.
Backed in to shut down for the night, and see this:
I'd been working on the fornt axle, and I think having the weight shifted to the rear pushed it into that.
Nothing like discovering something like this at midnight 2 days before leaving for a race. I'm impressed my wife didn't wake up from the litany of explitives.
Luckily, I happened to have a set of ~2" longer shackles on hand. So I drank a coke and tackled it right then, finished in under an hour.
New shackles at full droop:
And loaded
So - how did this happen? Is it just that the springs spread out so much when loaded, that it extends beyond the length with te hshorter shackle? Clearly I moved it too far, but I wanted to get it away from any chance of inversion.
(thanks again to Dylan, Johnny, and others for helping fixe that - twice lol).
So I spent the better part of last weekend cutting off the old shackle frame mounts, move forward about 2", then re-welded.
I picked the new location so that at full droop, the shackle would be just a hair inboard of vertical.
Resulting loaded angle was much better - D-side shackle sits at about 4:30 angle loaded. Beer time.
Fast forward to midnight Mon night.
Backed in to shut down for the night, and see this:
I'd been working on the fornt axle, and I think having the weight shifted to the rear pushed it into that.
Nothing like discovering something like this at midnight 2 days before leaving for a race. I'm impressed my wife didn't wake up from the litany of explitives.
Luckily, I happened to have a set of ~2" longer shackles on hand. So I drank a coke and tackled it right then, finished in under an hour.
New shackles at full droop:
And loaded
So - how did this happen? Is it just that the springs spread out so much when loaded, that it extends beyond the length with te hshorter shackle? Clearly I moved it too far, but I wanted to get it away from any chance of inversion.
