Hello from Essex coast

Sj410red · Post by **Sj410red** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 3:16 pm

Hi all just thought I had better say hi, I'm Richard from clacton on sea, I have a 89 sj410 with a few suspension mods for some offloading and greenlaning. I go to Bures pit offroading site just north of Colchester, is there any members here go there too? I try and load some pics ASAP

windsor · Post by **windsor** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 3:20 pm

Hi welcome to the club

OllieSJ · Post by **OllieSJ** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 3:25 pm

Hi welcome not to far from u. nice clean sj looks very clean amost too good to off road

ferris · Post by **ferris** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 3:45 pm

to the club

Edweird · Post by **Edweird** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:14 pm

Nice looking zook. The body looks to be in great condition. Only thing I would say is that the shackles look veeeeery long.

Post by **Jordi** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:16 pm

Welcome to SCUK.

Sj410red · Post by **Sj410red** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:07 pm

Yes the shackles are bout 6" also it's got calmini 3" lift springs with rough country shocks with 2" extensions on them. I know the shackles can ruin standard springs, as the old ones were, but I fitted the new tougher springs and was hoping they could cope with the shackles, any views welcome on that plz?

Edweird · Post by **Edweird** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:18 pm

Well, I'm pretty sure extended shackles mess with your steering, especially if they're six inches long. Your caster angle is going to be way out, possibly even negative which means that your zook is actively going to try and turn to full lock when going forwards rather than try and return to centre like it should. It'll mess with other things like cornering response and performance. I might be wrong but I think it'll cause more understeer.

As for wrecking springs, I thought it was spring over axle that would do that rather than shackles, but it might be both.

OllieSJ · Post by **OllieSJ** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:32 pm

Does it have mot and tax

Sj410red · Post by **Sj410red** » Sun Sep 08, 2013 5:50 pm

It can be a hand full at speed on cornering, bit jumpy, but hey its not built for doing much of that. And yes its motd and taxed.

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