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nissvit

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:56 am

just crawled out from under another stray sierra.

the owner was complaining that it wasn't handling as well as he remembered..

no wonder

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alien

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:02 pm

WOW - thats impressive! would have been a catastrophic failure if that let go at highway speed!

my shackles are plated so wont be rusting out in a hurry =P

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:05 pm

Never seen that before!

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nissvit

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:12 pm

Fatzook wrote:

8O

Never seen that before!

nah, neither have I... and its on a road driven sierra,

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:14 pm

nissvit wrote:

Fatzook wrote:

8O

Never seen that before!

nah, neither have I... and its on a road driven sierra,

I'd say that at some point its spent a whole lot of time on corrugated dirt roads

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steak_knife

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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:50 pm

The spring's don't look much better. Thay look to be rusted together..

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LAY80N

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 2:09 am

I have snapped a stock shackle before, simillar to that but at the spring eye end.

Layto...

alien

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:23 am

did it nearly kill you or did it hold together like this one?

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 5:53 am

alien wrote:

did it nearly kill you or did it hold together like this one?

I don't think you'd notice? Just some loose steering? Probably get the usual Sierra death wobbles. But even if you took the shackles off completely, you could probably still drive down the road without a problem. It's not like the diff is going to fold itself backwards under the car.

( yeah yeah i know it'd be unsafe, but just theorising )

jonno_racing

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 6:01 am

WOW

yeah i am with steve i would drive that home!

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slowsierra

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Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 8:12 pm

after i rolled my sierra pulling out of a driveway i gave it a good once over (and change the body) and found i had this problem :oops:

alien

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Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 12:33 am

slowsierra wrote:

after i rolled my sierra pulling out of a driveway i gave it a good once over (and change the body) and found i had this problem :oops:

lol

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