dirtyjerz

So i've been searching this for the past few days and have came up with nothing. Do i NEED bumpstops if i'm not rock crawling. I strictly mud and DD with both front and rear sway bars. Reason for asking is I bought some new shocks and wondering if I should worry about bottoming them out or if the sway bar will limit my travel enough. right now I have about 4.5 of up travel on a 10" travel shocks

kirknd4spd

It all depends. Are the stock bumpstops limiting uptravel enough to keep the tires from rubbing and keeping the shocks from bottoming out? Sway bars will not take the place of bumpstops, you need the bumpstops to be the only thing limiting the uptravel of the suspension, to keep from breaking anything else.
I will say, I hit my bumpstops a lot less and break far less parts since I quit riding through mud holes. Rock crawling and trail riding, like I do, is far easier on the suspension than mud. Just my personal experience. Just because you only dd it and go through mud holes doesn't mean you don't need to extend the bumpstops. If anything, it should be more important on a mud truck than a rock crawler. At least when we hit the bumpstops crawling, it's usually at low speed, in low range, not at wot through a mud bog bouncing through ruts.

sycoglitch

Ha, i use my bumpstops more DD than anything. Dam roads suck. Blew my first set of rear shocks way back when because of it. Was young, dumb, and inexperienced. Now i have it as a proportion. Just enough uptravel to protect the shocks, when i run long travel shocks

PurpleToxin505

Bumpstops? Who needs those? Haha, of course you should run them, you should match your bumpstops to your tire size when ever it changes. Me, I haven't done them, and I know my tires and fenders both probably hate me

crdude

If you don't want you fenders looking like mine, you need bump stops.. Lol

McCaffrey

^^^ That's a cool color.

Yeah, one of mine is pretty mangled too. I don't care too much and just keep bending it back. An aftermarket bumpstop is on my to-do list just because I'm getting tired of "fixing" it. I've been gluing in hockey pucks but they keep coming off.

sycoglitch

Epoxy has served me well so far. Only came off once in many months of them on.

caronaxtr

I'm just about to get my bump stops figured out , what are you guys using to "glue" the pucks? Epoxy is a very vague term. I've seen some guys on here drill & bolt them down. Any thoughts, ideas, product numbers would be appreciated.

sycoglitch

I got 5 min Epoxy from autozone. Squirt and press and forget.

crdude

Thanks, painted it myself.

kirknd4spd

I just stuck a couple hockey pucks in each coil spring, then screwed the pucks together. Once they're screwed together, its too big to fall out of the spring, so I don't even attach them to anything, they just sit in there. Been working fine for me for a while like that

dirtyjerz

was wondering what you guys thoughts are on these prothane progressive stops would they be better for mudding verses the hockey pucks or would it not even matter. also found this little chart on naxja and wonder what you guys thought on it.
-thanks

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1104351

Barrelmaker

I love my prothanes, they make the speed bumps at the mall bearable.

Aljay

I drilled and tapped my spring seats when I did my lift ,
drilled thru the hockey pucks bolted them down .
Easy and effective.

dirtyjerz

ya i've been doing a lot of research on em and i think thats the route i'm gonna go. I found this on naxja i was wondering if anyone could tell me if its a good general rule of them the 60 front 80 rear compression figures in the post.

http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1104351

the math seems pretty legit to get you in the ball park could be a knowledgable for anyone else looking to bumpstop just copy into excel and put your measurements.