One of the dumbest and most useless mods I made to the truck involved replacing the spring shackles with crappy aftermarket units which I bought from MidFifty.com. Just about every item I have purchased from this company has been of exceptional quality, but these shackles were thin and low grade and resemble something you would find on a cheap Chinese disposable truck. In hindsight I should have just tossed them in the rubbish bin. But the reason I persisted was to get the rear of the truck to sit a little lower and make it look more balanced as it definitely sat up a bit too high in the rear. Did it achieve its aim? Well, to a fashion it did, but when I look back at it, and see the big heavy duty shackles that I cut out just to fit up these shitty ones, I can only believe I must have had rocks in my head. My brother came down to give me a hand installing them as it was definitely a two person operation.
Anyway, my advise is; don't do it! It just isn't worth butchering those nice old solid shackles for this trash.
Here's a photofest...
This is a picture of the actual shackle. See how thin and crappy it is!
Bloody thin, spindly things they were! Too late to go back to originals now.
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