hey guys so if any of you remember im the low truck ranting guy, but any who i bought those aluminum tensor low and damn, just these are the possibly worst low trucks on the market. idk how daewon does it maybe the mags are made better besides being magnesium. the turn is very standard non special geometry turn, kinda sloppy. plus the bushings i took out and noticed the rings on the flat surface part of bushings was not even complete on one of the bushings, one bushing had all the usual rebound rings cut right and the other one was missing rings, it only had like 4 while typical bushings have like 10 or so of that rebound rings you see on the flat surface of the bushing that touches the yoke
so to wrap it up, dont buy tensor aluminum lows(or regs), maybe the mags but just stay away from tensor in general i would say, you really pay for what you get, these were $34 for the set and i truly regret it. dreams of skating like daewon crushed
but on to new things i discovered my indy lows are the best low trucks, so i jumped the gun and got some ace 03/ ace lows and boy oh boy when shop employees dont pay attention to current stock
they freaking sent me 1 new version of the 03 thats made with better quality aluminum and build, stiffer bushings, and 2 speed rings per axle and 1 old version of the 03 with 1 speed ring per axle, the softer bushings ace use to have, and a lower quality grade aluminum. how do i know its a lower grade? its the old aluminum that was the cause of old aces breaking and bending easily and when i spun my wheels on both new and old ace truck the bearing spinning against the old ace made this hollow chinging kind of rolling sound while the new ace with the bearing rolling against the axle sounded like a normal solid truck like your goto indys and thunders and good trucks.
idk i emailed them at
[email protected], hopefully thats the right email joey put up and they can fix this cause like all you truck maniacs i cannot ride this setup of 1 new ace build and 1 old ace build, plus the soft bushing on 1 side and stiff bushing on the other is too much, you guys understand. you cant just tighten them cause the old ace bushings are so soft theres gonna be a few threads sticking while the new ace bushings require a wind down less than flush
overall though when this is fixed i cannot wait to get rolling on them, cause this might not be relate-able but i have some indy 109 on a zinger and i love the way they have this carvy but slight quick response turn and i think aces are supposed to be based of indy stage 3/4 and 109ś are stage 1 but i feel theyre relatively a similar style of feel and turn for different but close stages/versions
for now i guess its the indy 139 low til joey sends me a new 03, also the new 03 came in a bag that had a label with diamond on it while the old one didnt. i know joey and nick are cousins and work together. but crazy how the guys at the shop couldnt sort that out for me, also these were the last set on stock at the shop thats why im getting at ace isntead of the shop