don’t the holes end of overlapping though when you drill new ones or are they far enough apart?
No, they’ve been pretty close but are separate holes so I’m not ending up with truck slots.
see what trips me out is that if i went from my current thunder hollows to ace hollows i’d potentially lose half an inch of wheelbase -
that’s the difference between 14" and 14.5". i KNOW i couldn’t skate a 14.5" wheelbase so like…what the fuck? i almost what to buy a pair of ace hollows just to see if it trips me out super hard or if it unlocks a superpower or something 
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For the last three-ish years I started paying close attention to wheelbase length, because I had a board with a long wheelbase and I couldn’t do things right. So, I went for decks with a shorter wheelbase, like 14", 14.25", and I loved it. Then, last summer I got a deck off someone for cheap and set it up straight away because I liked the shape, skated it for a bit and really loved it, even more than my last few decks. Turns out it has a long (for me) 15" wheelbase. So, the only thing I’ve learned from my experimentation is, don’t worry about wheelbase. Half an inch here or there doesn’t matter.
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No top bushing, just the nut
I love loose trucks and this seems to make sense, do you really need a top bushing??
True wheelbase enters the chat 
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That seems a bad idea to me, the hanger is going to be sort of graunching against the kingpin and nut.
Would it not make more sense to thin the bottom bushing down to say 1/2 and lop some thread off the kingpin
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I wonder when the world started to care about trucks and wheelbase? I wonder if it coincides with my truck tipping point diagram? hehe
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It’s certainly what I go back to. Did you ever include risers in the diagram? (and the difference they would make?)
Nah, because that’s a preference and miniscule. I do it for noise cancellation more than shocke or making it higher.
This one has come up for debate a lot (between my various personalities). The height difference between most hi and lo trucks is about 2.5mm which is roughly the height of a riser. If you have lo trucks and use a riser, are you then riding hi’s?
I flip flop between using them and not using them. It’s mostly a sentimental thing because I’ve had same risers forever
No because this method doesn’t change the geometry of the truck apparently
It’s solid and this isn’t gonna damage it.
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I’ve been skating the higher Indys with 1/8 risers for decades. Kinda have to being a big guy. Pretty sure a lot of people couldn’t skate my boards, and even more sure I could never skate most people’s setups.
Yeah I very much get the impression that despite skating similar brands we would struggle on each other’s setups
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I was on something close to your setup for years but I started skating wider, shaped boards which led to wider popsicles and now I could never skate on the setup I had 5 or 6 years ago.
This said, I just got wider boards and trucks, the height of my trucks and the size of my wheels haven’t changed at all for decades.
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I just picked up a new board in the post Christmas sales, 8.5 inch with a 14.5 wheelbase… decided to try and experiment with drilling each set of truck holes in .25 of an inch… using one of these
Haven’t set it up and skated it yet, but the holes are painfully close to each other…
It’s also a board with similar construction to a Powell Flight deck. Will see how that goes…
If people are interested in drilling a new wheelbase, you can use an old 6 hole baseplate to go back/forward 3/8 of an inch on a single set of holes.
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I was thinking of drilling some holes in an old deck later to mess around with it. I love that you just said fuck it and drilled a brand new one
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your holes are off 
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