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CRUNCH !! All i did was shove 107 kilos of batteries in the boot, go over mild bump and rear suspension bottoms out with a metalic CRUNCH. Std height. So that's why you guys go lifting these babies!

What on earth where you doing with 100 odd kilos of batteries in your car?

(A) Thalass would be proud of me , only if I was going electric
(B) Trying to replicate a good load to find the CRUNCH
(C) Cruised past a hopper after a neighbouring tenant had done a clean up, then done a runner and noticed a battery or five. Scrap price below 100kg 41.5 cents per kilo, above 100kg it's 47.5 / kg. An old aquaintance used to collect a tonne for a better price again.

answer is (C). C for cashing in , paid for half my radiator service today

Yes I could kick Subaru for not putting wagon style bump stops in the rear of a 4WD/AWD L Sedan . I seem to remember looking at a wagon shell to see if the body mount section could be grafted in but theres a bit involved in doing that .

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So what happened to the rubber bump stops that are on the shock?

Or has someone removed these at some point (they also deteriorate & fall off)?

having a closer look...... got some thick rubber sheet to tie into place

Are the dust covers for the rear shocks sitting up the top of the shock shaft, or down the bottom.

If they're at the bottom, the bump stops have detoriorated.

same happened to me - i think i even made a post about it. anyway, just went to fulcrum and got some foam stops and put them over the shock shafts and it's ok now

lol hundred kilos...
Cheers
AP

AP ssshhhhh....... 100 kilos is nothin' A mate is not shy about his 143kg - but got no worries as there is no way he is ever gonna fit in my boot (we'd need a forklift for starters) coz there is also an 89 litre gas tank up front of the boot.


I'll check the bump rubbers in shock.

twilightprotege wrote:same happened to me - i think i even made a post about it. anyway, just went to fulcrum and got some foam stops and put them over the shock shafts and it's ok now

Got a link to them? Or do you happen to have a spare set laying around?

just go to fulcrum and ask for a set. they are universal ones, just make sure they for the right shaft size (i think 19mm???). i know they are thinner than the fronts (22mm i think???)

Well,well.... the Monroe Wylies fitted do not even have a shred of a bump stop fitted. I'd say whoever fitted them had no idea or care. They were only six years old when i bought the beast. A spare original shock has a crusty, crumbly old bump stop and I reckon just a few old shock rubbers will do the job. Thanks for the heads up on this one.

Bobbyjimmy , Capital Steering in Wishfyck was once Fulcrum if that helps

yeah none of my shocks had bump stops - fronts going on soon

I ise hilux bump stops at the drags. requires a 10mm hole to be drilled in the lower arm and a small piece of box section applied to the body of the car(bolt or mig glue lol) bit extreme for your application though lol

I scored some used Cdore link bar bushes in red urethane , should do the trick....

And it took me more than two months to get around to the task. Found a rubber coated moustache bar washer also missing some rubber - possible cause of another noise. Fixed that. Found the shock not as good this side as the other, then went on to find wagon springs shoot arse another 40mm skyward and too bouncy, and a shock that I kept was not worth keeping. Wagon springs going to scrap too

i've got a wagon at my disposal as well now - wagon bump stops here i come....well when i can be bothered to get around to it. no 1 cylinder on my ea82 has sprung a leak....of coolant in to the bore

Ah poop, I hear you say.... These bump stops are contained within the shock not part of the suspension structure like on wagons. The wagon shocks also have the rubber on the shock like sedan

Yessss there would be a bit of work involved in removing the wagons wheel arch gadget to get the bump stops striker point . Then you'd have to make mounts for the rubber bit and weld them to the trailing arms .

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