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To Anyone With Shackles...

MaXJohnson said:

NAXJA member

90 XJ with enhanced NVH, new alternator, homemade front bumper with reciever hitch and shackles, Rusty's disconnects, replaced axles with 4.10 gears, BFG MT's, rockcrawler wheels, KC Highliters, brake pads, Kevin's track bar, new drag link, extended brake lines, factory replacement unit bearings, Rusty's 3" lift with 1 3/4" spacers, homemade rock rails, homemade skid plate, factory gas tank skid, Optima redtop, hood hinge spacers, K&N filter with homemade airtube, new water pump, new fan belt, new fan clutch, late model water neck, aluminum pressure tank, new rod bearings, oil pan gasket and valve cover gasket, new oil cap, Modine radiator, full gage cluster, Hurst shift knob, Pioneer tuner/cd player, front and rear 6pt roll bars, 3 replacement window cranks, drivers door window winder mechanism, Sun tach, Cobra CB, Firestick antenae, homemade safari rack w/HiLift mount, homemade traction bar, new rear axle seal and bearing, noslip locker, Flowmaster 50 series and new tailpipe, new temp sender(factory and aftermarket), new vacuum manifold, new clutch, clutch slave and fluid line, 1 new headlight, cabin & intake temp gage, drivers door window regulator, homemade rear bumber with reciever hitch, gerry can and tire carrier, tailight guards, extended Yakima 4-bike carrier, first aid kit, hd backup light, rear brake shoes, transmission main shaft, drive line u-joints, Monroe rear shocks w/hi-clearance mounts, new valve stems, replacement steering box, dual hocky puck bump stops, manual secondary fan switch, new oil filter, another alternator, powersteering high and low pressure hoses, upper & lower radiator hoses, Rusty's upper & lower control arms, aftermarket speakers front and rear and some other stuff...


WOW! thats a nice sig:D
 
CJS said:
I guess I'm wrong then, this comment wasn't biased but instead was based on your vast experience in aftermarket suspension. It also related to the original post b/c if one person has a problem ( a minor one at that, easily fixable) and you have the same problem then I guess you are justified to flame Rusty. I didn't flame you, I simply stated the obvious just as everyone else did:rolleyes: .

Of course and my comment was biased. If you had the same problems I had with Rusty's parts (springs, track bar, shocks), you would be biased too (more details in my site, at the sig).

And no, the comment wasn't based on my vast experience on after-market suspension kits, since I am new into the Jeep staff, although not new in 4x4's and in altering suspensions in general, but that's another issue.

And I do not think that you stated the obvious like everyone else, from the ten or so persons who participated in this discussion, only you and MaxJohnson found my comments either irrelevant to the thread's subject (??) or biased.

I assume that some of you guys do not want to hear bad things about the manufacturers, I am sorry, I do not agree with you. I believe that the role of such forums is to inform people about product short-comings. If that is not their raison d' etre, please let me know. If that is the case, I would gladly shut up and never participate in a discussion again.
 
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John-Boy said:
Sure does.

Royce and John-Boy,

Do you care to elaborate on your answer? I am not sure of what you mean. Shall I participate in JU only, because NAXJA members do not want to hear my comments, or vice versa?

Many thanks
 
Sure I'll elaborate. The bickering between people in this thread is the reason for the comment.

Jeepsunlimited.com is a very large Jeep community website.

At one time several of the people here (to include myself ) would frequent, learn, post and have fun on the XJ forum. Many still do.

Over the years it went from being an informative and technical forum to a forum where people bicker, argue, flame, and generally act like idiots. You have to be very careful about the information you get from the site because there are so many people who just don't know what they are talking about but claim they do and put out bad info.

I myself still go there, but less and less because the questions have migrated from technical questions to things like

"what type altezza's should I get"

" post pics of your bling bling rocker guards" etc....

(yes, an exaggeration, but check it out for yourself)

I would suggest that you stay here and use JU for less technical stuff. I'm sure that you have some experience and insight to share with the rest of the group.

There is just too much good information and knowledge for you to go elsewhere.

John
 
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John-Boy said:
Sure I'll elaborate. The bickering between people in this thread is the reason for the comment.

Jeepsunlimited.com is a very large Jeep community website.

At one time several of the people here (to include myself ) would frequent, learn, post and have fun on the XJ forum. Many still do.

Over the years it went from being an informative and technical forum to a forum where people bicker, argue, flame, and generally act like idiots. You have to be very careful about the information you get from the site because there are so many people who just don't know what they are talking about but claim they do and put out bad info.

I myself still go there, but less and less because the questions have migrated from technical questions to things like

"what type altezza's should I get"

" post pics of your bling bling rocker guards" etc....

(yes, an exaggeration, but check it out for yourself)

I would suggest that you stay here and use JU for less technical stuff. I'm sure that you have some experience and insight to share with the rest of the group.

There is just too much good information and knowledge for you to go elsewhere.

John

Thank you Sir. This was exactly the reason I came to NAXJA.

Rgds
 
1986xj said:
You being from the land of smooth high traction rocks may not understand that us on the east coast have jagged pointy rocks, slippery moss covered boulders, roots, stumps and things like that. Over here if it's under the Jeep it will be drug over a rock or a root will get up under there and snag something. I've seen plenty of times where a shackle has been drug starting from up at the hanger when trying to back up over a rock to "try" to get a better line over an obstacle. Any Zerk fitting pointing down in an acessible place, where I wheel, would not last long at all.
Mike B.

So you've seen or had a rock or stump go up over the leaf spring jam up into the FRONT of the shackle hanger box??? :confused:

If you look closely, you can just see the tip of the zerk (light colored dot) sticking out from the "front" of the shackle bushing:
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You've seen something jam up in THERE???
 
Jeepin Jason said:
So you've seen or had a rock or stump go up over the leaf spring jam up into the FRONT of the shackle hanger box??? :confused:

If you look closely, you can just see the tip of the zerk (light colored dot) sticking out from the "front" of the shackle bushing:

You've seen something jam up in THERE???

Yep if it was on the back side, I have seen things jammed up in there. But it looks as though it's in a well protected spot on the front side... proving my point that it was put there in front for that reason.. this all started because there was a complaint that it was hard to get to on the front side...
Mike B.
Geesh it "do's" feel like JU here on this thread.
 
1986xj said:
this all started because there was a complaint that it was hard to get to on the front side...
Mike B.
Geesh it "do's" feel like JU here on this thread.

NO, it wasn't!! I originally commented that while I liked the RE shackles because of the cutouts to clear the bumper bolts, I was unhappy that they put the zerks on the wrong (ie: back) side! :confused1

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