Building my own shackles

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Mar 21, 2010 | 08:41 AM

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camo31_10.50

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you'll wanna brace them for sure..weld a piece of that steal across the middle and you'll be good bro!

they sure look perty though

Mar 21, 2010 | 08:51 AM

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x2 on bracing I did mine and with out the brace it twists the rearend bad

Mar 21, 2010 | 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 4Crawler

You'll likely find you'll need 14mm bolts on the bottom and 18mm bolts (and holes) on the top of the shackles.

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Originally Posted by Bridger5228

So, a stock 89 would have an M18(~3/4")bolt shank on the top and an M14(~9/16)bolt shank on the bottom right? Can somebody confirm this plz?

Mar 21, 2010 | 09:03 AM

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Right Waskilly Wabbit, but he said you'll "likely" find..... so I didn't know exactly what he meant by that. Maybe it was sarcasm, lol.

Mar 21, 2010 | 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by camo31"10.50"

you'll wanna brace them for sure..weld a piece of that steal across the middle and you'll be good bro!

they sure look perty though

Thanks for the compliment.

Mar 21, 2010 | 09:05 AM

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Right Waskilly Wabbit, but he said you'll "likely" find..... so I didn't know exactly what he meant by that. Maybe it was sarcasm, lol.

I think it was unless someone has changed out the stock shackles like you are doing.

Mar 21, 2010 | 09:10 AM

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I think it was unless someone has changed out the stock shackles like you are doing.

Haha ok, that makes more sense. Thank you for confirming that so that I didn't have to pull a stock shackle just to see what size bolts I needed!

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