[washington blue]

Turned out well, grade 8 bolts and nuts & lock washers and it is solid. The shackles do not point straight down to 6 oclock, they point down and rearward to about 7 oclock. Had I not moved the mounts forward 5/8 inch they would have been straight down. The finished product does not look much different. I now have about 4 inches of travel from metal to metal, that's a lot. I stood on the rear bumper and I am about 200 pounds and I jumped up and down vigorously ( stopping just short of falling off, lol) and the rubber bump stops never touched the rear end. I think this will be fine. I have to wonder if there is an engineering reason to have the shackles tilted rearward? I gained about 1 5/8 to a max of 1 3/4 inches in height with my primitive measuring. It was a cost of about 3 bucks for the bolts is all, so may as well do it.