i keep hearing all about people putting in custom shorter bumpstops and it sounds like something good and relatively cheap. im lookin into it, but havent rly found anything. how easy is it and how do u do it? do u have to buy anything? the full rundown. thanks

 

Well, yes its easy and cheap but you do need to buy the parts I am not sure if you can just shave them or not.

 

I don't think you can shave them. Just get some universal low profile bumpstops (Energy Suspension makes them... You can get them from some AutoZones and I think Summit.. I found mine at a local 4x4 shop). All you do is unbolt the old ones and bolt on the new ones. You will need 4 for the bumpstops and 2 more if you want to do the droopstops too.

As a matter of fact, I installed mine while waiting to meet up with some friends at a football game . Here's pics of old and new:

Old:

New:

 

i have those engery susp. ones and they were cheap and real easy to install

 

If only you would have looked around some. If you keep hearing people talk about stuff on here chances are it's been discussed a ton.. if a search yields no results then always always check the tech section. You'd be amazed at what you can find on here if you look around a little bit.....

With that said.. here is the how to write up complete with part numbers

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f129/low-profile-polyurethane-bumpstops-75740/

 

I'm definitely doing the compression stops, but am wary about doing the droops for fear of breaking CV's.

... also I think my shocks limit my droop anyways and I don't really want to replace them

 

You can shave the stock ones down. I did so to my lower control arm snubbers, and on the rear leaf spring bumpstops. They are solid rubber, no metal inside. I cut mine down to about 1/4" thickness. I actually removed the leaf spring bumpstops when I discovered I couldn't get enough compression to make contact with them anyway. I know you can alter the upper control arm snubbers, but I refuse to accept the risk. My CV joints are stressed out enough already. Downey Off-Road has polyurethane snubbers, and a nifty gusset for the upper control control arm snubber bracket. I busted a bracket off once, took some serious abuse to accomplish.

 

I saw in the 4WP "4wheeladventures" magazine the other day that Daystar makes a bumpstop the you place directly on the shock rod. Not sure how they work but I thought I'd throw it out there.

 

Downey makes low profile bump stops. I have a pair on my truck

 

Make sure your shocks don't bottom or top out w/ new bumpstops.
A sure fire way of having to buy new shocks in no time.

 

"Overextending" your shocks, that is having the shocks be the thing that limits downward droop, won't hurt them.

"Overcompressing" the shocks will kill them for sure.





Fred