Shackle Brackets?

[Madracingalley]

Has anyone here make rear shackle brackets before.

My rear drivers side shackle finally fell through and I don't want to spend the $80.00 PER SIDE for factory shackles at the dealership I worked at for two days doing inventory work.

I just need some patterns and some thicknesses.

I'm hoping to build it into a prerunner someday so I need to look at somthing I can raise the rear with.

I have an FX4 4:10 posi axle that it needs to hold up to.

 

[kozak]

Copy your old shackles. I made my own extended shackles that way, I used some 1/2" flat bar with some solid round stock in the center.

 

[Madracingalley]

Sadly, There is nothing left to copy.....both are rotted beyond recognition

At least the frame is good.....

 

[lone-wolf]

Junkyard might have ones you could use, or maybe good enough shape to copy.
Buy shackles at the dealer, copy, and return.

 

[exbass94]

Napa has shackles for about $30 a pair, and the brackets for the shackles for $20 a pair.
http://www.napaonline.com/Search/Results.aspx?N=599001+599999+101994+109999+50028+59999+2028044+2999999+14711+14710&NValue=14711+NValue=14710+

 

[Teddyzee]

FWIW, the shackles and rear hangers are the same on Rangers and '86-'96 F150's. i don't remember if the front hanger is the same or not. If it is, the Ranger front hanger changed in 1998.

Oh, and napaonline searches time-out, so that link is gone. But you should be able to find it again.

 

[Iron Ranger]

I have. Made them both out of 1/8" plate and careful copying.

I'm sure that this can be done in an easier way and with 1/4" material, but this is what I had on hand and this is what I came up with.

 

[CopyKat]

FWIW, the shackles and rear hangers are the same on Rangers and '86-'96 F150's.

Not hardly. The F150 brackets are different, far from the same. The shackle however is the same for the rangers and the 2wd F150. 4x4 F150's use 3" wide springs.

 

[Madracingalley]

Beautiful welds!!!!!

Is that stick of mig... Looks stick to me.
I love the use of triangles. they only make things stronger!

They look heavy duty

1/8th inch can only make it stronger

 

[jarhead2010]

very nice welds, but i say it looks like mig based on the color of the bead from the gas shield just my 2 cents

 

[Madracingalley]

good point...

 

[jarhead2010]

not to contradict you, they are beautiful and you have a great truth about the triangles

 

[Iron Ranger]

They are MIG welds from a Hobart 140. 1/8" thick is what the factory brackets are supposed to be. I would like to make a bunch if these at some point, since it's one of the few things I can make solely at home without the use if tools at work.

 

[Ranger#1]

Beautiful welds!!!!!

Is that stick of mig... Looks stick to me.
I love the use of triangles. they only make things stronger!

They look heavy duty

1/8th inch can only make it stronger

i never did get how people cant tell the diffrence

 

[CopyKat]

I made mine out of 3/16" plate.