shackle's hitting my frame
Ok fellow jeep people's i recently put my lift on and since then my shackle's have been making contact with the frame (it's kinda LOUD) :o so everytime i go over a bump i get this loud clunk noise & i can't find a thread about it so im asking for your help once again ;) thank you for any input
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I have seen em hit the lower bolt on the bumper bracket while going over bumps, but never the frame. Could you post some pics of it?
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Well I have seen the need for a shakle relocation kit when flexing, but never just driving over bumps
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OK, now I get it. Your spring is too long. If you were to extend the shackle, which they probably assumed you would do anyway, it will probably clear.
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what length of extension do you think would work ? a 1 inch you think
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It is a little hard for me to get it right from the pic. But if I was doing it, I would measure how much of the spring eye is inside the shackle bracket and then extend it that much. You might look into a boomerang shackle, bent in the middle for this purpose and get a set of those, which would do the trick nicely I think.
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well i guess it makes sense now because the lift kit had the option to do a 3 inch spring lift with a 1.5 shackle to get the 4.5 lift but i needed new springs so i went with the full pack.
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Many times they use the same rear spring for two different heights, just adding a shackle for the extra.
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hey thank you for steering me in the right direction you guy's now i know what i need to buy/replace and again THANK YOU
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Any time, that is one of the reasons we are all here. Let us know how it works out.
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sorry one more question for you 4.3, do you know how much extra height those boomerang shackle's would give me ?
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No, I don't. A couple of our vendors on here could answer that question for you though. Mark at Payless is on vacation, you might check with Jason at Jeepin Outfitters.
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you don't need to answer that question i just found some online, it's like 1 3/8 max so i guess my jeeps butt will be sitting high. and again thank you i hope i can be as knowledgable as you guy's about this stuff