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Old Sep 5, 2010 | 05:09 PM
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Just thought of another thing when you do build your driveshaft and rotate diff your gonna need a new diff cover that has a higher fill plug location to put at least 3/4 a liter more oil in that diff so you can still get oil to the pinion bearing. Bet you never thought of that yet.. I know you were asking about gear oil the other day

Dam I am screwed with those springs!!!!! How about making it like a slipper spring? Let it slid under a piece a channel?
 
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Old Sep 5, 2010 | 08:06 PM
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Dam I am screwed with those springs!!!!! How about making it like a slipper spring? Let it slid under a piece a channel?
Is this the new TINIAN????!!

I'm about to give up
 
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Old Sep 5, 2010 | 10:57 PM
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I don't recall Tinian having banana springs.. now he's a rockwell guy. :P
 
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Old Sep 5, 2010 | 11:10 PM
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no but he was a hack!
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 01:26 AM
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Are you asking about a slide shackle? I know Karl runs one on his ranger and it works really well, but its a single leaf spring setup with coilovers holding most of the weight.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 06:51 AM
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What's with all the flak?

Scatgo, the the prob I see is that the main spring is wrapped so the eye is above the spring, not below it.

Here's a pic of mine so you can see the difference. 10" "Banana" spring BTW :

 

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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Briansshop
What's with all the flak?

Scatgo, the the prob I see is that the main spring is wrapped so the eye is above the spring, not below it.

Here's a pic of mine so you can see the difference. 10" "Banana" spring BTW :


Thanks bro..
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 09:48 AM
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Originally Posted by 73 ford guy


Is this the new TINIAN????!!

I'm about to give up

Easy guy. They sent the wrong spring. The eye is suposed to be on the bottom. As you can see in Brians pic it matters....
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 02:23 PM
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Easy guy. They sent the wrong spring. The eye is suposed to be on the bottom. As you can see in Brians pic it matters....
.....then send them back and get the right ones unless you ordered the wrong ones, then i guess it sucks to be you and your stuck with them, gotta make em' work somehow.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 05:01 PM
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Now they're 10" lowering springs.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by captain p4
Are you asking about a slide shackle? I know Karl runs one on his ranger and it works really well, but its a single leaf spring setup with coilovers holding most of the weight.
Paul, you gotta remember my setup is a limited travel drag car type setup that I'm using for mud drags. Not your typical 4x4 setup.

Here it is just for info though:





 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 08:05 PM
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Hey, Kjett thats a great setup. I am sure that would be the best way to go to get the most travel frome a set of big leaf leaf springs.
 
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Old Sep 6, 2010 | 08:17 PM
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Not really, considering the rear no longer moves in an arc fashion like a typical shackle. It now keeps the rear much in the same postion with the ladder bars and coilovers. Meaning I only get slight up and down travel keeping the tires in the same location in the wheel wells at all times.
 
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 07:09 PM
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All that lift and your diffs are still only 15" off the dirt, well concrete. Hey kjet, why not just run coilovers and a 4 link instead of leafs + coilovers and ladder bars? Coilovers + leafs make me laugh, like the vw bug guys with c.o. on there already sprung front end.
 
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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He's playin the rules so he have a "stock" suspension and beat up on all the actual stock trucks in the mud runs. Like me.
 
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