Hi Greg,
If you can get your hands on a Marstrom (Tornado) halyard ring all your problems will be solved. I suffered through all that stuff and this fixed it for me.The ring is welded to the shackle so there is no slop in the connection. Hope this helps, it definitely works.
Todd
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