RE: [ihc] RE: Pete's mods

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure how I sent before I finished my thought.

Nope, no clarification needed unless "flipping foreword and laying flat"
is unclear.  Foreword, horizontal, with the spring eye trying to contact
the bottom of the bumper.  I can't remember if it actually does contact,
been a couple years since we made new shackles.

Ed
  


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sohm [mailto:idaemes@domain.elided] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:15 PM
To: 'Ryan Moore'; 'Peter Shubin'; 'ihc@domain.elided'
Cc: 'jgrammer@domain.elided'
Subject: RE: [ihc] RE: Pete's mods


Nope, no clarification needed unless "flipping foreword and laying flat"
is unclear.  Foreword, horizontal with the 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Moore [mailto:baradium@domain.elided] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:40 PM
To: Ed Sohm; 'Peter Shubin'; ihc@domain.elided
Cc: jgrammer@domain.elided
Subject: Re: [ihc] RE: Pete's mods



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Sohm" <idaemes@domain.elided>
To: "'Peter Shubin'" <pshubin@domain.elided>; <ihc@domain.elided>
Cc: <jgrammer@domain.elided>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 15:15
Subject: RE: [ihc] RE: Pete's mods


> I wasn't paying too close of attention so forgive me if this has been
> covered.  Triangle springs have been known to settle a little, like
> starting out closer to 5" and sagging to 4".  Some people have had a
> problem with stock length shackles on the front flipping foreword and
> laying flat.  My brother-in-law's Traveler did this and I made
slightly
> longer shackles on Joel B's advice and they stopped doing it.
Something
> to consider.  I sure wouldn't go any shorter with the shackles.

I thought Triangle springs were the only springs that *didn't* have the
shackle flip problem.  You mean flipping backwards don't you?  Never
heard
of any flipping forwards.

Need some clarification.

-Ryan


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