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Front Bumpstop Pad To Far Out Of Alignment at Full Compression

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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 11:24 AM
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Default Front Bumpstop Pad To Far Out Of Alignment at Full Compression

Check this out, I pulled out my TF 2.75" front upper bump stop extensions while welding in my gussets. I compressed the suspension nearly all the way, in the pic I still have 1" of shock compression left! How can these be re aligned? It could be my AEV geometry brackets? Nothing is binding at full compression except this... Should I just put the extensions back in and get 3" longer shocks?

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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 11:30 AM
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Looks like your sway bar links are still attached.
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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by mikeJKUR
Looks like your sway bar links are still attached.
They are, but do you think that would cause the bumpstop and pad to malign?
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Old Feb 23, 2015 | 12:05 PM
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What is your caster set at? (you profile shows brackets and adj upper arms?) Tilting the housing (lowering the pinion/raising the caster) causes the lower stops to tilt further and further back.

So, lowering the caster/raising the pinion would tilt the stops back upright. (again, depending on what the caster is set at now.) Or maybe adding lower arms and moving the whole housing forward?
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