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Bump stops/ limited straps are important. Using most shocks as a limited strap, or use as bumpstops can cause damages to most of the shocks.

 

Fo sho and fo certain you missed that one. Certainly if you add a spacer on top of the spring, it can compress more. The only ways for it not to would be 1) if you also added the same amount to the bumstop or 2) lowered the lower spring mount the same amount as the spacer, which of course would defeat the purpose of installing the spacer to begin with. While the spring CAN compress 3/4" more than stock with a 3/4" spacer, only two questions come to my mind about it. Will the Jeep REALLY be wheeled hard enough to make it compress that extra 3/4"? And if it's wheeled hard enough to do it, will that extra 3/4" of compression really amount to a bucket of horse piss? My guess on both counts is no. Now, if we were talkin somethin on the order of a 2" BB with no bumpstops, and the Jeep sees full stuffage a lot, then by all means, over compression becomes a real possibility. At 3/4" though, I really don't see a problem, even though the spring WILL compress a touch more.

 

Correct me if Im wrong but bilsteins have built in bump stomps in the shocks.

That why the rough country kits do not come with bump stops.

 

That was funny.

 

Not all of them do. Even on the ones that have them they aren't worth a plug nickle.

 

plug nickel eh? lol

Opinions are like nagging wifes, everyone has one.

 

You have a point, but in that assertion you are already grossly exceeding the weight rating of the vehicle and overloading the carrying cappacity of the spring. In that case if the spring were overcompressed and damaged it would not be the fault of the spacer but that of the owner who overloaded the vehicle in the first place.

 

They do. Can't solely depend on one single part. Cuz shocks are expensive vs bumpstops.

 

This was my thought as well. Is it as simple as when you increase space between spring and frame you must increase bumpstop length equally? Or is there some generally accepted tolerance - less than an inch should not matter (for example)?

 

I hated those questions too