BAMF HD Shackle hangers

Yeah I made a request to send out my hangers a couple weeks ago and you went ahead and sent them. If you were going to wait to ship out the shackles with the cross bar I'd appreciate it if you sent the shackles by themselves and the cross bar later and just bill me the extra shipping.

 

Jberry is gonna shit himself when he sees that.

 

These things are PURE BEEF!!!

 

suggestions on nut/bolt torque? what about threads? grease, no grease, anti-seize?

 

85ft#'s and anti-seize is your friend.

 

^this

 

WINNER! 8 of 8. Fine thread. Sad face.

 

Well I took my truck down to moan to test out the new shackles and hangers and have to say they are beef. But I did find an issue with the shackles I think. When I am at ride height my shackles sit just like @NYCO did. It is not the leaf pack that is causing the problem. I just put the packs on three weeks ago and the were built at the end of February by Alcan. Now here are a few pics of what I found.


Full flex that shows were it rubs



Those next two pics show the leaves doing a couple of things. You can see the leaves starting to go a little negative because the shackle can't go down any more.


Here is a close up of the rub make from the hanger and shackle contact point.


Here is a pic at ride height.

The fear that I have with leaving these as is, is that either the shackle or hanger will implode with pressure or the main leaf will snap in half from the extra strain. My plan right now is to put the stock shackles back on before my ten day wheeling trip in the beginning of May. So I hope this info can help everybody and @JLee to possible come up with a different design.

 

Yes I would swap out to the stock shackles I'll see if I can get the shackles a little tighter to work with all leaves. It might just be putting a notch in the back of the shackle to give it the clearance. I'll be taking a look at that tomorrow.

Post a pic of it flexed out with the stock shackle.

 

Will do, thanks @JLee. Hopefully I can get them swapped out this weekend.

 

so are these the same as hammer hangers just designed by you?

Also can I order just the greasable shackles or are those reserved just for this? I see the HD shackles on the site but wold rather have the greasable

 

installing mine this weekend, will keep an eye on the shackles with mysetup. I guess ill pack my stock shackles as well with my moab trip in may just in case

 

Looks like the bolt is loose in the first picture.

 

How will this work out for those that have the original shackles that you made?

 

It was but got tight end shortly after the pic.

 

It's going to be a case by case basis we might have to have two different shackles to work with all leaf packs.

 

i should have some time sunday, i'm going to cut a little relief where the shackle rests and see if that helps. shouldn't take much and shouldn't weaken the hanger much

 

I would cycle it and see it could be all Alcan packs. I'm working on a new shackle to help clear the Alcan packs as we speak!

 

I’ll try it out with the Dakar’s and see how they work.

 

im on allpros