guys,
has anyone ever tried reversing the front spring mounts. ie mounting the shackle at the front and moving the spring eye to the rear. basically turning the suspension around to be same as 40 series.
was looking at the setup on the chassis, and was thinking i could kill two birds with stone, you'd get more lift and rotate the front pinion towards the x-fer case. i can't really see to many drawbacks to this, may ride a bit rougher, but 40's ride ok (most of the time)
cheers
matt.
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i personally wouldnt do it, my main reason would be when trying to drive up a large rock face, ruts etc a shackle at the front tends to bounce the vechicle back or puch the wheel downwards. there is more chance of the shackle getting hung up and trying to bow the spring under the truck. On a good side, when the wheel drops it is foward and away from the fire wall, less chance of rubbing, like you mention the pinion stays more pointed towards the transfer and i also think that it would allow you to move the axle further foward, althou im not sure how this would work with standard steering.
Yes you are right about getting more lift.
NICK
i personally wouldnt do it, my main reason would be when trying to drive up a large rock face, ruts etc a shackle at the front tends to bounce the vechicle back or puch the wheel downwards. there is more chance of the shackle getting hung up and trying to bow the spring under the truck. On a good side, when the wheel drops it is foward and away from the fire wall, less chance of rubbing, like you mention the pinion stays more pointed towards the transfer and i also think that it would allow you to move the axle further foward, althou im not sure how this would work with standard steering.
Yes you are right about getting more lift.
NICK
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cheers nick,
will have a bit more of a look at it and see which way will be better, lot easier to change spring mounts round, than to f**k round rotating knuckles etc. would provide more room for crossover steering too.
most of the forties that rockhop are still set up as front shackle from what i can tell by reading the mags etc.
someone needs to get some sort of event like that happening in the west. bit far to drive to sydney etc, to go look at 4wd events.
cheers
matt.
will have a bit more of a look at it and see which way will be better, lot easier to change spring mounts round, than to f**k round rotating knuckles etc. would provide more room for crossover steering too.
most of the forties that rockhop are still set up as front shackle from what i can tell by reading the mags etc.
someone needs to get some sort of event like that happening in the west. bit far to drive to sydney etc, to go look at 4wd events.
cheers
matt.
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tufflux380 wrote:
most of the forties that rockhop are still set up as front shackle from what i can tell by reading the mags etc.
matt.
I think that you'll find that not to be the case usually. Most have dont the shackle reversal for comp work.
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cheers boys,
just been reading the members rigs section, fark there are some nice rigs in there
yeah, decided against it in the end, cut the front hangers off sarvo, going to drop it by bout 2 1/2 to 3 " then put another inch in the shackles,
gotta go raid the wreckers morrow, to get some more bits for Xover, try and get all this shit done b4 i put the motor in and cab on.
got three straight days, managed to score an rdo on monday. woohoo.
cheers
matt.
just been reading the members rigs section, fark there are some nice rigs in there
yeah, decided against it in the end, cut the front hangers off sarvo, going to drop it by bout 2 1/2 to 3 " then put another inch in the shackles,
gotta go raid the wreckers morrow, to get some more bits for Xover, try and get all this shit done b4 i put the motor in and cab on.
got three straight days, managed to score an rdo on monday. woohoo.
cheers
matt.
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there is no replacement for displacement.
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NICK!!!
yeah mate i'm running a commodore v6 with the turbo 700 mated to the transfer via a matts adapter. it was in my 1980 single cab, but it has all been removed and is being transplanted to an 83 dual cab, need more room, plus old one was fulla rust, body and chassis
cheers
matt.
NICK!!!
yeah mate i'm running a commodore v6 with the turbo 700 mated to the transfer via a matts adapter. it was in my 1980 single cab, but it has all been removed and is being transplanted to an 83 dual cab, need more room, plus old one was fulla rust, body and chassis
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