any downside to bump-stops?

[boy&hisdogs]

If you are bottoming stock sized tires on bodywork/plastic and ripping things off, you're got a suspension problem somewhere....

I've done that before on stock 265s, but not on flat ground. I ripped a couple screws out of my valcence going a little too fast down a fire road that was a little too rough. I hit a dip and an embedded rock reached out and grabbed my front bumper. I learned my lesson though.

 

[Horns]

You'll hit the upper and or lower stops before even stock style shocks bottom out.

It's designed that way on purpose. Bottoming shocks will damage them, they are not designed to bottom or top. That's why there are upper and lower bump stops.

The picture I posted was only to show the upper stops and what it looks like if they are bottomed out.

245's are stock for 4x4's. Although 265's aren't very much bigger, nearly negligible actually..

If you are bottoming stock sized tires on bodywork/plastic and ripping things off, you're got a suspension problem somewhere....

Read my mind. If you use the shock as a bump stop, you're gonna have a bad day.

~Via Mobile

 

[K15 Blazer]

well the torsion bars are clearly worn out... and I cant find new ones ANYWHERE...

so the only think I can think to help would be SUPER stiff coil over shocks, or, rubber bump-stops so tall, that my lower A-arm would hit solid rubber before my tire would have a chance to eat into the fenders.... but would this run the risk of breaking something else?

 

[BOTTLEDZ28]

well the torsion bars are clearly worn out... and I cant find new ones ANYWHERE...

so the only think I can think to help would be SUPER stiff coil over shocks, or, rubber bump-stops so tall, that my lower A-arm would hit solid rubber before my tire would have a chance to eat into the fenders.... but would this run the risk of breaking something else?

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