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Old Apr 27, 2008 | 01:13 PM
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JB man you're a wealth of knowledge The bracket has been removed on my truck as well and the bumpstop is mounted direct to the frame but it is the factory bumpstop.
lol....well hell you can just take a hacksaw and cut some of the factory bumpstop off...or summitracing sells diff bumpstops....easy solution.
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 12:06 AM
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Yep need to bad too cuz after lowering it went to the beach this weekend for 2 days and parked it in a spot that was kind of sloped toward the driver side and when I got under the truck to look to make sure everything was good still the next day I noticed the bumpstop was bottomed out already just with the truck on a slope so I need to cut them down probably an inch or so.
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 12:10 AM
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why dont you guys cut off the brackets and put small bumpstops on the frame like here

http://www.djmsuspension.com/Instruc...s/RK2507-6.pdf
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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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I allready did :lol;

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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 07:45 PM
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Okay this question is open to all but JB will probably be the one to anwer lol now that the back is taken care of, what about the front? It supposedly has 2" lowering spindles with the 1"-2" Belltech drop coils but when I got underneath the spindles looked like factory ones, could I maybe have been jipped out of a set of spindles? A buddy of mine at a shop here in town took a look at it and said they looked factory as well and also mentioned that he had done a 2" drop spindle with the Belltech coils and that it looked a lot lower than mine. He was pretty busy and couldn't get it up on the lift to know for sure but what do you guys think?
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 06:51 PM
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what...nobody answering?
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 07:34 PM
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Shoot I might as well just shoot you PM's from now on JB haha save me the time. But I got some pics for you guys today, first pic is of the coil in the front, a guy at Belltech mentioned that some of their coils come with a spacer that can be removed which is why they call it a 1"-2" spring and this looked like a spacer to me but wasn't positive, any lowering component guys chime in on what they think?

And the second pic is my clearence from bumpstop to axle and this is with the factory bracket cut-off, think I need to cut the bumpstop a little?
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 08:54 PM
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I would remove that spacer and cut one or two ribs off that bumpstop

any pics of the spindle?
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 09:29 PM
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Didn't get to grab any pics of the spindle but will crawl under there tonight and grab one so I can get an opinion on if it's factory or aftermarket.
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Old Apr 30, 2008 | 09:58 PM
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Here's two pics of the spindle, not sure if you can tell from the pic but let me know what you think if it really is the drop spindle or if it's factory because it means the difference between my truck being at a 2" drop or 3"

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