Drilling Jeep Bumpstops?
06-03-2013, 09:25 AM
#23
i'll probably forget i posted this to recheck,
but having just installed a new rear axle in my 2002 with a 3.5" drive shaft and checking everything, I found when my rear axle was up against the oem bump stop that i had very little to no clearance between the drive shaft and the parking brake cable bracket on the tunnel above the drive shaft. I actually put a 1/8" piece of plate steel between my bump stop and the body as a safety shim so the steel of that bracket won't score my $$ drive shaft. anybody consider or check this? with the oem 3" drive shaft you'd gain 1/4" clearance from what i observed but that is not much at all considering if you are modifying your bump stops you would not know if the drive shaft would hit unless you checked.
but having just installed a new rear axle in my 2002 with a 3.5" drive shaft and checking everything, I found when my rear axle was up against the oem bump stop that i had very little to no clearance between the drive shaft and the parking brake cable bracket on the tunnel above the drive shaft. I actually put a 1/8" piece of plate steel between my bump stop and the body as a safety shim so the steel of that bracket won't score my $$ drive shaft. anybody consider or check this? with the oem 3" drive shaft you'd gain 1/4" clearance from what i observed but that is not much at all considering if you are modifying your bump stops you would not know if the drive shaft would hit unless you checked.
06-03-2013, 12:41 PM
#26
i'll probably forget i posted this to recheck,
but having just installed a new rear axle in my 2002 with a 3.5" drive shaft and checking everything, I found when my rear axle was up against the oem bump stop that i had very little to no clearance between the drive shaft and the parking brake cable bracket on the tunnel above the drive shaft. I actually put a 1/8" piece of plate steel between my bump stop and the body as a safety shim so the steel of that bracket won't score my $$ drive shaft. anybody consider or check this? with the oem 3" drive shaft you'd gain 1/4" clearance from what i observed but that is not much at all considering if you are modifying your bump stops you would not know if the drive shaft would hit unless you checked.
but having just installed a new rear axle in my 2002 with a 3.5" drive shaft and checking everything, I found when my rear axle was up against the oem bump stop that i had very little to no clearance between the drive shaft and the parking brake cable bracket on the tunnel above the drive shaft. I actually put a 1/8" piece of plate steel between my bump stop and the body as a safety shim so the steel of that bracket won't score my $$ drive shaft. anybody consider or check this? with the oem 3" drive shaft you'd gain 1/4" clearance from what i observed but that is not much at all considering if you are modifying your bump stops you would not know if the drive shaft would hit unless you checked.
