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Re: gangsta lean

Post by ektoz » Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:02 pm

dazerede wrote:Mine is leaning to the driver side even with out me in it so I took the rear springs off and noticed the more curved spring was already on the driver side :er: but people say when driving down the road that it is leaning to the driver side quite a bit

Plus my rear springs should be 1" higher than standard but they have gone to standard hieght naw and the truck is leaning back aswell lol

if i see correct you are running reverse shackles thas why you are higher front (i think), just
get a higher rear shackles they are ok for the back

i have a set of Rope Ratchets and i will tie town the passenger side axles to the shassis until the bumpstop :brows: and leave it for a week will se what will happen
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by Edweird » Wed Apr 09, 2014 11:21 pm

ektoz wrote:i have a set of Rope Ratchets and i will tie town the passenger side axles to the shassis until the bumpstop :brows: and leave it for a week will se what will happen

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Re: gangsta lean

Post by dazerede » Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:28 am

Ye I run 2" calmini shackle reverse kit and the springs should be 1" lift springs but the rears have gone to standard hieght
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by ScottieJ » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:02 am

dazerede wrote:Ye I run 2" calmini shackle reverse kit and the springs should be 1" lift springs but the rears have gone to standard hieght
are you running longer shackle sin the rear though? the calmini kit comes with longer shackles for the back.
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by suzukisteve » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:38 am

whats the deal with shackles? can you do em an extra inch without any troubles? not too long obviously dont want fangs digging in but a little extra would be nice
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by ScottieJ » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:35 pm

Personally with standard sj suspension I would not fit shackle that are more than 30mm longer than stock so 100mm between hole centres. will lift a whole 15mm :lol:
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by suzukisteve » Thu Apr 10, 2014 8:55 pm

ah fair. manage to pick up a set of springs. ill just stick as standard I reckon lol
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by twiss » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:41 pm

my front shackles turned out to be exactly 100mm between hole centers...
with the 2" springs I can feel that the steering is a little different because of it, but its not bad...
nothing like when i had 3" lift shackles on the front haha
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by dazerede » Fri Apr 11, 2014 7:23 pm

This is the kit 2" shackle reverse kit
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Re: gangsta lean

Post by Tramp » Fri Apr 11, 2014 8:49 pm

Yeah the 'boomerang' shackles in the bottom right of your photo should be on the rear springs, I have this lift kit on mine, but mine has the +1.5" calmini leafs too, although I get gangsta lean, when I'm back on the road I'm going to buy a few bags of sand equivilant to my wright and put them in the passenger side, footwells, to try and get it to settle more level

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