How lose can I make ventures without the nut going loser or falling of on its own?
I‘m a bit traumatized now, when I think about going full speed for tricks over a London gap and almost killing myself cause the truck falls of , which almost happened yesterday to me.
Cut down the top bushing, or buy the new low top bushing set would be the easiest thing to do.
I have been cutting the top bushing down for a long time on a lot of setups, for myself and for many others and it works really well.
About 1 mm would do nicely. You can also sand it down on grip scraps or even on your grip of your current setup, but when you cut it off, if you don't like it, you can always put the piece back in as it was.
Sent you a post about it anyway.
As per someone else from the Instagram post about it, here is the Venture catalog pic as well.
The lower head bushing still fits well under the normal / stock washer without it digging into the hanger, from what I saw and tested of it the other day on a set of Ventures when I measured the height of the lower top bushing against some I had cut down previously.
There are some significantly deeper top washers around though, from other brands or after market products, so if you did end up with a deeper top washer for whatever reason, I would suggest trying to locate a not so deep one or as said, use a flat top washer if you are really worried about it.
Original top bushings are between 9 and 10 mm tall (this one converting to about 9.5mm from the pic), with this low one being 8 mm tall, so only 1.5 difference. I had some down to about 5 mm and there definitely was some washer catch marks on the hanger, but mostly the 8 mm height would not have any issues.
As to how much difference it makes - quite simply, a lot. If you have the kingpin nut at the same or flush with the top it is very noticeable from uncut to cut, so you can take the kingpin nut down lower, also giving you more clearance as well as having a looser truck, or tighten it down a bit more and angle grind off the top of the kingpin to have a lot more clearance.
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