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Title: Quick question about manitou swinger 3
Post by: whisperdancer on August 05, 2006, 10:44:20 pm

Hi everybody.

For those of you who have a manitou swinger 3 shock, I have a question.
Does the shaft rotates through the shock body?
I was thinking of making an adapter for my strut to fit a manitou, but only if I can put the eyelets of the shock perpendicular to each other...

Anyone?

Regards, Ricardo.

Title: Re: Quick question about manitou swinger 3
Post by: Matno on August 06, 2006, 05:27:19 am

Yes, it can be rotated a full 360 degrees. I got that info directly from Manitou tech support so it should be reliable. Just don't rotate it more than once because it will unthread as you turn it (one turn doesn't matter though). I rotated mine 180 degrees to get the valve where I wanted it.

Title: Re: Quick question about manitou swinger 3
Post by: proflex252 on August 06, 2006, 05:35:44 am

I did the 180 turn on my swinger 3way air, too.
I have a 190mm i2i on my 5000 and had to build an adapter for it.

It is no prob as it turns the seals not in the thread.
So it won't be unthreaded by turning it further.
It's all in the seals.

And it doesn't matter if you turn it clockwise or counterclockwise.

CU

Matti

Title: Re: Quick question about manitou swinger 3
Post by: iliv2k2 on August 06, 2006, 03:05:29 pm

Any recommendations on fabricating an adapter?  I bought a 7.5 awhile back and need to put it to use.

Title: Re: Quick question about manitou swinger 3
Post by: whisperdancer on August 06, 2006, 08:03:12 pm

Hummm...

That's what I'm afraid: the adapter.
I've seen some in the gallery, but it always seems to me that the shock puts a lot of stress in the adapter's bolts (where the shock meets the adapter).
I would feel more confident with some sort of sleeve, where the shock would fit in. If the shock shaft stays at least 12mm out of the shock body, that would be great, since I can make both things: sleeve it and bolt it.

Cheers, Ricardo.