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shackles!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:36 pm
by mathewh11
Hello!,
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does anyone know the standard lengh of them so i can make some out of my stupidly high ones!
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thankyou!!
Matt
Re: shackles!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:37 pm
by ScottieJ
I think it is 70mm? I'm not over at the workshop until tomorrow night so if no one confirms that between now and then ill measure them.
Re: shackles!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:41 pm
by mathewh11
ledgend!
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, thanks alot mate doing them tommorow so hopefully someone will
matt
Re: shackles!
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:04 pm
by ScottieJ
It shouldn't hurt to do them slightly longer like 90/100mm if you wanted. In fact it can give you a tiny bit more droop travel.
Re: shackles!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:35 pm
by mathewh11
did them about 90mm in the end, but now i have another dilemma
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. the rears have 3 leaves and a helper spring ive put the add a leaf under the 3 leaves and over the helper, however my front only has 3 and the bottom 1 is shorter than the add a leaf so i removed this and put the add a leaf in place is this correct?. also the back springs look like there gonna go higher than the front
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any advice please
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ill try put pics up later but i'm not promising anything
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thanks
matt
Re: shackles!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:25 pm
by bigben
did you do 90mm from hole to hole? im in your situation with the silly length shackles
Re: shackles!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:52 pm
by mathewh11
bigben wrote:did you do 90mm from hole to hole? im in your situation with the silly length shackles
yes there still fairly long so just hoping it's gonna be ok
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Re: shackles!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:58 pm
by twiss
I cut this:
to make this:
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Re: shackles!
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:54 pm
by bigben
ahh ace off to do mine now ill get some pics of it as i go
edit! ahh poo looks like mine are diffo i can probably only get them down 30mm currently sat at 140mm as there is a peice of box for strengthening in the middle unlike your thin rods. Could i cut the box out and use them at say 80mm withought the centre strengthening?
Sorry dont mean to hijack
Re: shackles!
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:43 pm
by bigben
anyone? or shall i just put a bolt through the middle or weld it rigid