banana shackles

Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Location: sunshine coast

does any one in aus sell banana shackles?
cheers steve

Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:26 am

i made some and can get them laser cut 4 $100 if u interested PM me

Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: North Sydney, Australia

What is a banana shackle?

Is that with a curve built into the shackle or something?

What is the benefit of these? Never heard of them b4 that's all.

Cheers,
Bart

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 10:32 pm

they shaped like a banana and aloow u 2 get a 45degree shackle angle on the front of a lux bithout the shackle hitting the bodymount/frame, altho they do hit the body mount on the front side but that is easily fixed by notching the bodymount but u cant do that at the back coz its the frame that needs cutting

Joined: 22 Oct 2002

Toyo Truck wrote:

What is a banana shackle?

Is that with a curve built into the shackle or something?

What is the benefit of these? Never heard of them b4 that's all.

Cheers,
Bart

You paint your shackles yellow! Laughing

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

hypolux wrote:

they shaped like a banana and aloow u 2 get a 45degree shackle angle on the front of a lux bithout the shackle hitting the bodymount/frame, altho they do hit the body mount on the front side but that is easily fixed by notching the bodymount but u cant do that at the back coz its the frame that needs cutting

So they require spacers I guess or can they be dog-legged (for want of a better term)?

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:11 pm

beebee wrote:

hypolux wrote:

they shaped like a banana and aloow u 2 get a 45degree shackle angle on the front of a lux bithout the shackle hitting the bodymount/frame, altho they do hit the body mount on the front side but that is easily fixed by notching the bodymount but u cant do that at the back coz its the frame that needs cutting

So they require spacers I guess or can they be dog-legged (for want of a better term)?

spacers is better allows more room around the frame end but they can b bent i havent made a bent set tho

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

hypolux wrote:

beebee wrote:

hypolux wrote:

they shaped like a banana and aloow u 2 get a 45degree shackle angle on the front of a lux bithout the shackle hitting the bodymount/frame, altho they do hit the body mount on the front side but that is easily fixed by notching the bodymount but u cant do that at the back coz its the frame that needs cutting

So they require spacers I guess or can they be dog-legged (for want of a better term)?

spacers is better allows more room around the frame end but they can b bent i havent made a bent set tho

Spacers seem to get hung up much easier due to the extra width.

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

Won't the spring eye still hit the frame?

Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Location: Manjimup, Western Australia

Here is some pics of banana shackles that budbuilt makes in the US.
http://www.budbuilt.com/new/shackles.html

Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: North Sydney, Australia

Do they give more or less flex than straight shackles?
Do these allow you to bolt rear springs in the front?
What other mods do you need to do to make this work?

And most importantly is it worth putting rear springs in the front?
Anyone done this mod? How much improvement?

Cheers,
Bart

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

Do they give more or less flex than straight shackles?
None realy they allow the shackle to fold back on the chassis without interferring with the body mount (i have notched mine)

Do these allow you to bolt rear springs in the front?
You can bold these in atm with just a 2 or 3" extended shackle, and caster correction wedges unless you go dropped hangers

What other mods do you need to do to make this work?
Cross over steering Shocked

And most importantly is it worth putting rear springs in the front?
Hella of a lot of flex

Anyone done this mod?
Heaps - i am going to on my project next week when the chassis gets back from the welders

How much improvement?
I personally dont know

Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Location: North Sydney, Australia

Cheers for that bubs,

So are you putting the rears in front aswell as banana shackles?
or just the rears in front with straight shackles? Post pics
when you get it done.

Bart

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

i'm making the front shackles tonight, just making straight shackles and will notch the body mount to suit Cool

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

I've got rears up front and can highly recommend them for flex. Unfortunately, they're not exactly "bolt-on"

Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Location: Greenbank, Qld

toyo FYI i am running a 2" dropped hanger 25mm forward of stock, with cross over steering, the box will be as far forward as possible

beebee - what is the centre to centre of your front shackles, so i can make some?

Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Location: Brisbane

I'll measure them when I get a chance.