mutti_wilson
Well-Known Member
A progressive link thumb is designed to extend the thumb to the same line as the stick when fully extended. The direct connect thumbs usually gets you somewhere just over 90 degrees to the stick.
My direct connect weld on thumb has 134 degrees of rotation. I think that's pretty normal for most non progressive setups. An additional 22 degrees of rotation wouldn't be possible without a linkage but just wanted to show that the thumb doesn't look like it'd be into the coupler or bucket. I figured that the OP's thumb is only getting about 115 degrees of rotation from the stick.