official Truck Failure thread...

**nightskateboards** · 02-01-2009 05:16 PM

yeah, i have big80s coming in.. and im just going to mess around with bushing setups.. and not run 90a venoms all around like most people do on this sitem

and try some different methods, like maybe take the spherical out, etc..

**nokeboarder** · 02-01-2009 05:54 PM

well now that i'm scared to death of my trucks.... why did i look at this thread

**SABdervish** · 02-01-2009 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by basstard

Yeah the new gen is A LOT better.

word, haha i got some black ones and theyre working perfectly fine.

**circle** · 02-01-2009 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by nightskateboards

yeah, i have big80s coming in.. and im just going to mess around with bushing setups.. and not run 90a venoms all around like most people do on this sitem

and try some different methods, like maybe take the spherical out, etc..

Big80s dont have sphericals i am pretty sure....

**Shimotakimas** · 02-01-2009 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by circle

Big80s dont have sphericals i am pretty sure....

Yes, some of them do.

**Sherpa** · 02-01-2009 08:19 PM

**KAKA** · 02-01-2009 08:27 PM

wow i thought bears where like the truck to have but now...
are those the cheap onse or like the 400$ ones

**sk8norcal** · 02-01-2009 08:33 PM

nice one sherpa,
is that your truck?

another offset...
mike maysey's

**Sherpa** · 02-01-2009 08:52 PM

yeah, thats my geezerized g truck, i got it fixed. i have another one, its a bent rt-x offset. i think tvar still has is somewhere.

**K-SHIZZ** · 02-01-2009 09:16 PM

**Squirrlyismyname** · 02-01-2009 09:21 PM

Originally Posted by KAKA

wow i thought bears where like the truck to have but now...
are those the cheap onse or like the 400$ ones

all the broken pics are of the cheaper forged trucks
not of the cnc'd precision smokys...

**sk8norcal** · 02-01-2009 09:25 PM

Originally Posted by Squirrlyismyname

all the broken pics are of the cheaper forged trucks
not of the cnc'd precision smokys...

that's cast, not forged...

**Squirrlyismyname** · 02-01-2009 09:27 PM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

that's cast, not forged...

sh!t yea.. thats what i meant ha
forged, cast.. same thing (just messin i know it isnt)

**phil6x** · 02-02-2009 11:01 AM

HEHEHEHEH somone had to do it =]

**Ogre** · 02-02-2009 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by Sherpa

The Reason Eric stopped doing offsets

**TheEskimoMan891** · 02-03-2009 08:18 PM

dawgs

my friends bears just broke too
Same thing, ripped out bushing seat.
SH!T

**19kai89** · 02-04-2009 02:20 AM

why the hell are the bears so crappy?

set of 1052's i had bent to #### and the bushing seats, just god awful, sheared right out of the hangars by what? the effing kingpin?

it's unfortunate, because i actually like landy, or want to, but this kind of stuff is re-occurring, and just makes them seem like they couldn't care less.

**snozzboarder55** · 02-04-2009 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by 19kai89

why the hell are the bears so crappy?

set of 1052's i had bent to #### and the bushing seats, just god awful, sheared right out of the hangars by what? the effing kingpin?

it's unfortunate, because i actually like landy, or want to, but this kind of stuff is re-occurring, and just makes them seem like they couldn't care less.

maybe its the old batches that suck. i have the newer generation and have ad no problem with them, except that the kingpin gets in the way of changing bushings, flipp hanger, etc. but ive done everything on em from 40-45mph runs, garages, carving, sliding and have not had any messed up seats or bent hanger...but im waiting on the hangers to go over time...it happens

actually reading this, i noticed that when i put my trucks on/off the bushing seat scraped against the kingpin, maybe that weakens it enough to shatter the seat?

**stevie** · 02-04-2009 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by Sherpa

I remember that truck. Glenn Shotwell bought a bunch of those G Trucks back in 2002 or 3 and had Geezer modify that one. I think he was as much interested in getting the original blue G Truck bushings as the trucks themselves. I bought the truck from Glenn in 2004 but just never could get it to work for me. I don't know if I sold it to you or the person you bought it from, but I clearly remember thinking thinking "Oh ####, I hope nobody got hurt" when the failure pics were first posted. I gotta ask, did you ever really like how that truck worked?