Suzuki Club UK

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

Hi welcome to the club

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

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

Welcome to SCUK.

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?

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.

Does it have mot and tax

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.