Bushing and Truck Setup Help Offered

moon · January 29, 2020, 7:19pm

I am unable to find Krank weight application charts on your website

RipTideSports · January 29, 2020, 7:46pm

I find weight charts to be very misleading by taking only one thing into consideration. Skip weight chats and ask me a question

moon · January 29, 2020, 7:52pm

Fair enough. No questions to ask, Ill just buy a few bushings and see what I like

RipTideSports · January 29, 2020, 8:36pm

Krank is especially misleading on a weight chart since it is so adjustable.

moon · January 29, 2020, 8:50pm

I am going to play around with bushings with duros in the higher 80s

Im 60kg running TKPs

ahrav · January 30, 2020, 5:52am

@RipTideSports thanks for your work.

RipTideSports · January 30, 2020, 5:00pm

OK @olsyke, here are a couple of things to try. First, SZ in their infinite wisdom changed the bushing seat on the TKP a while ago so it would no longer accept the Chubby shape. I am wondering if that may be part of the problem. Try running a Barrel / Barrel front and a Barrel / FatCone in back all in the KranK 84a and send me a picture of the rear boardside bushing seat.
Also try running a 84 Barrel / 84 Barrel front and a 84 Barrel / 90 Barrel back.

olsyke · January 30, 2020, 5:12pm

@RipTideSports
as far as i can tell the bushing seat is symetrical board/roadside, i bought these trucks used from @skunk, so it might be possible these are still the older version… its hard for me to tell tho, the chubby does somewhat fit, but not perfectly

im also tempted to fill the gap in the duro’s i own by buying a set of all the relevant shapes in white 87a if that makes sense

RipTideSports · January 30, 2020, 5:38pm

Those are the newer and do not fit the Chubby

olsyke · January 30, 2020, 6:01pm

allright, thanks for the insight
i will go with the solutions you gave me and report back

olsyke · January 31, 2020, 4:39pm

soo, i had a chance to try out what you suggested…

i have to say the difference after getting rid of the chubby in the rear truck is night and day, the board is much more agile and still stable enough for speed

for now i settled with 84a barrel / barrel front and 84a+90a barrel / barrel back,
but as a result of this change it suddenly became more obvious that with the tkp’s i definetly can use some harder duro…

so from here i will mix in the 87a that are on their way to me and start finetuning my setup

thanks for your advice,
this definetly got me on the right track @RipTideSports !

RipTideSports · January 31, 2020, 4:58pm

Great, thank you so much for the feedback. When the 87’s arrive first replace the roadside 84 in the back then if you need more, replace the 84 boardside front with a 87a

olsyke · January 31, 2020, 6:06pm

will do, now im really confident this will turn out great!

next up will be my spud build, but this is for another time when the headache i caused you has worn off

CiscoV · February 1, 2020, 2:26am

@RipTideSports hey brad. I’m still here looking to possibly switch back to my Tb baseplates but I don’t really like that pivot cup sloppy fit.
What pivot cups do you recommend I use for them “apparently I need oversized ones” Some recommend I wrap my current ones with Teflon tape but I’m not going to do that Id rather buy new cups that actually fit the plates

Thank you

RipTideSports · February 1, 2020, 4:18am

I am a bit disappointing we have not heard from TB regarding this issue. Might have to stick with Caliber II base plates for the time being.

I have heard back but no resolution yet

CiscoV · February 1, 2020, 10:02am

Aww. Ok. I thought there might’ve been an easy fix such as just swapping to an oversized pivot cup but guess not .
Oh well.

Thank you Brad!

nomadic_myke · February 3, 2020, 5:53pm

I hope a precise solution is worked out. I purchased a TB CNC kit and was surprised that my pivot cups fall right out of their seating when the trucks are disassembled. They are loose enough for the pivot cups to wobble back and forth before tension is applied. I am uncertain how much of an issue with will be once tightened up and on the road. I am probably going to try some teflon tape for now, but like others have said, I would prefer to have perfectly fitting pivot cups for my TB setups.

RipTideSports · February 3, 2020, 5:59pm

That would be my preference also

torqueboards · February 3, 2020, 6:21pm

@nomadic_myke Once the CNC Trucks are assembled there shouldn’t be any issues with the pivot cup. Try them assembled and let us know if you have any issues.

RipTideSports · February 3, 2020, 6:57pm

Regarding pivot cup fit, the true test is assembled because often the Pivot nose of the hanger expands the pivot causing a good net fit in the base plate. If it is loose assembled then we need to find a solution