Pandora,
>Then how come i can move the bottom nuts in pretty far and fully mess the top teeth on the orginal but i can not do this on the starter.
What is different about the orginal that lets me do this.<
The Starter is a bit shorter than the regular. Less height between the top and bottom teeth.
>Yes, the top gap needs to be smaller than the bottom gap, but relative to the bottom gap. The mental picture that I have is that you have an extremely large bottom gap, and very little top gap. My question was, did you experiment with a somewhat smaller bottom gap, and a somewhat larger top gap.
See, most guys can fully mesh the top teeth, almost no gap on top gap, and the bottom teeth of the hanger still contain the bottom of the shaft. You probably read something about this, and got this mental picture. But if you have a very large girth, you may need a slightly larger top gap, in order to have a smaller bottom gap, and contain the bottom of the shaft.
There should be a happy medium, where the shaft is contained between the top teeth and the bottom teeth, and the shaft does not impact either the top bolt, or the bottom bolts.
Is there any way for you to email me pics of what you are doing?
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>I use to hang with the bottom gap bigger than the top gap or the top gap and bottom gap around about the same. But then i read some where about making sure that the top gap was smaller than the bottom gap and to try and mesh the top teeth or have as little a gap as possible so i try that and i liked it the best.<
Right. I am writing about smaller increments of adjustment. You always want the top gap to be smaller than the bottom gap. It is also best to have the top gap small enough, that the shaft never comes in contact with the top bolt. However, with almost any girth, you can have the proper adjustment on the bottom hex nut adjustments, to contain the shaft between the top and bottom teeth, and the pressure be on the top sides of the two major chambers.
>i also noticed that the more weight i hung how u suggested to do it the more smaller the bottom gap would have to be making another problem where the teeth would start to hurt when i would tighten down and my shaft would push the top bolt up and cause the washer to slowly grind away at the washer seat making the hanger useless.<
I am sorry. I do not understand exactly what you mean. You do not want the bottom gap so small that it pushes the shaft up into the top bolt. You always want the pressure on the top sides of the two major chambers. I am writing about much smaller increments of adjustment.
Did the washer seat fail?
Any pics or measurements would really help. If you can just give your wrapped flaccid girth measure, I can put you in the ballpark on bottom hex nut adjustment.
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