Bump stops needed?
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Bump stops needed? Found out sat the new 17" Z06 rims are rubbing on my wife's TA. Yesterday spent a bit of time griding it down and still have a little bit of contact, but there the rubber half of it still rubs.
It ok to take the stop out of there and bend the bracket or there an adapter I can buy later and weld in?
I can't even picture a Fbody ever having to use those!
It ok to take the stop out of there and bend the bracket or there an adapter I can buy later and weld in?
I can't even picture a Fbody ever having to use those!
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Got that from searching from other posts you have made.
Going to pick up an angle grinder tonight and see how much I can trim off.
Rim/tire combo is 17 X 9.5 and 275/40/17 also. Was pretty stoked about it and after hearing the squeeling driving around yesterday knew it couldn't be good. When I jacked the metal half was pushing against the tire and the bottom half was rubbing on the metal. Been lucky the wife hasn't had a blow out this last week going to work or anything.
Will post up some results of either griding it down or bfh mod to try and make it fit.
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Thanks for the fast responses!
Got that from searching from other posts you have made.
Going to pick up an angle grinder tonight and see how much I can trim off.
Rim/tire combo is 17 X 9.5 and 275/40/17 also. Was pretty stoked about it and after hearing the squeeling driving around yesterday knew it couldn't be good. When I jacked the metal half was pushing against the tire and the bottom half was rubbing on the metal. Been lucky the wife hasn't had a blow out this last week going to work or anything.
Will post up some results of either griding it down or bfh mod to try and make it fit.
Got that from searching from other posts you have made.
Going to pick up an angle grinder tonight and see how much I can trim off.
Rim/tire combo is 17 X 9.5 and 275/40/17 also. Was pretty stoked about it and after hearing the squeeling driving around yesterday knew it couldn't be good. When I jacked the metal half was pushing against the tire and the bottom half was rubbing on the metal. Been lucky the wife hasn't had a blow out this last week going to work or anything.
Will post up some results of either griding it down or bfh mod to try and make it fit.
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He just said 9.5"...which is kind of weird...they should fit perfect, unless the offset is way off.
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not needed! In the 108,000 miles of my cars life they have never been it! So i took them off and beat them with a hammer!!! I have dont this to many many many car and have even cut them off with a plasma cutter and not one problem! 
It would also be bad for the shock absorber since it now has no limiting device on suspensuion travel.
I'm trying a bit of a different route...
My 18x11 CCWs tuck pretty far in in the back, and I was having some contact issues with the bump stops on hard corners. I ground the stops, and that seemed to work, but I've never liked how harsh they were.
So...I cut them off. BUT, I put bump stops on the shocks themselves. I'm gonna see how that works out for me...if I destroy the shocks, that's okay since I plan on replacing them with Konis eventually. There are lots of options out there for bump stops that ride on the shock shaft. I'm just not sure how effective they are. I guess I'll find out.
My 18x11 CCWs tuck pretty far in in the back, and I was having some contact issues with the bump stops on hard corners. I ground the stops, and that seemed to work, but I've never liked how harsh they were.
So...I cut them off. BUT, I put bump stops on the shocks themselves. I'm gonna see how that works out for me...if I destroy the shocks, that's okay since I plan on replacing them with Konis eventually. There are lots of options out there for bump stops that ride on the shock shaft. I'm just not sure how effective they are. I guess I'll find out.
actuelly i cut them off the other day and got the 5 pound sledge out not problems now i can take off the spacers i talked to alot of performance shops that work on f bodies and they say its not really possible for them to actuelly be in use there is alot of play before it hits the stop
actuelly i cut them off the other day and got the 5 pound sledge out not problems now i can take off the spacers i talked to alot of performance shops that work on f bodies and they say its not really possible for them to actuelly be in use there is alot of play before it hits the stop
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Not sure on why they would have trouble fitting like they do. Purchased the rims from Tomzwheels. Fronts fit fine, just had the problem with the driver rear. Maybe small discs or something on the car?
Didn't pick up 18's and go 315 because I didn't have a adj PHB and heard of issues so tried to work around it. Hopefully when I pick up 18's and some Nitto tires for the track I wont have problems.
I dissagree 100% I took them of my car, and it allowed the suspention to travel so far the the side wall of the tire contacted the wheel well lip and liced it to ribbons . . .
It would also be bad for the shock absorber since it now has no limiting device on suspensuion travel.
It would also be bad for the shock absorber since it now has no limiting device on suspensuion travel.
I'm trying a bit of a different route...
My 18x11 CCWs tuck pretty far in in the back, and I was having some contact issues with the bump stops on hard corners. I ground the stops, and that seemed to work, but I've never liked how harsh they were.
So...I cut them off. BUT, I put bump stops on the shocks themselves. I'm gonna see how that works out for me...if I destroy the shocks, that's okay since I plan on replacing them with Konis eventually. There are lots of options out there for bump stops that ride on the shock shaft. I'm just not sure how effective they are. I guess I'll find out.
My 18x11 CCWs tuck pretty far in in the back, and I was having some contact issues with the bump stops on hard corners. I ground the stops, and that seemed to work, but I've never liked how harsh they were.
So...I cut them off. BUT, I put bump stops on the shocks themselves. I'm gonna see how that works out for me...if I destroy the shocks, that's okay since I plan on replacing them with Konis eventually. There are lots of options out there for bump stops that ride on the shock shaft. I'm just not sure how effective they are. I guess I'll find out.