Lower front Bump Pads??

[crazyjim]

What are you all using? I saw Vetteboy used HDPE from McMaster, anybody else have ideas?

I'm looking to get my shocks / bumps mounted and set up this weekend, need some ideas. My RE ones destroyed themselves!

 

[Loose_Nuts_Enterprises]

On the race car, we use the RE ones...but....cut out a flat piece of steel in a circle, and welded a bolt to the bottom to go through the RE piece and bolt to the coil bucket in the threaded hole. Ours has a nut welded to the coil bucket. Use some loc-tite and a big ol' pair of channel locks to tighten. It's worked well for us for two seasons.

 

[crazyjim]

That's not a bad idea, can you shoot me a price on the RE 3" bumps again? I forgot how much they were. I may go that route.

 

[vetteboy]

I was a real big fan of the UHMW round stock. Very quiet and easily adjustable.

My rear bump pads are just flat metal plate and it's much noisier.

 

[crazyjim]

I was a real big fan of the UHMW round stock. Very quiet and easily adjustable.

My rear bump pads are just flat metal plate and it's much noisier.

The noise doesn't really bother me so much. I'm not sure how much stronger the material you used was vs. the nylon RE bump pads, but any time I didn't hit dead center it would deform the edge, changing when and where I bump by that much makes a difference.

You also have to figure, I'm going to be hitting them consistently hard, 100ish times in a row at times. I was always on them through the whoops before, with some hard hits every few whoops in the g-outs.

 

[crazyjim]

I was a real big fan of the UHMW round stock. Very quiet and easily adjustable.

My rear bump pads are just flat metal plate and it's much noisier.

BTW, how much was the material? I wouldn't be against using it instead, also with a plate on top.

 

[HeavyMetal]

ive used UHMW for a few months now (4-5), i am on the air bumps a Lot, and have bombed it a whole lot...it hasnt even been gouged or marked up at all, just no dirt where they contact.

it wasnt expensive...i think i bought a 4x9 rod from mcmaster (to cut in half) for something like 20-30 bucks (had to turn it down on a lathe though, get 3.5 or something)

 

[grandrunner]

i was thinkin of doin the UHMW for mine because i will be doin them this month along with my upper bump cans. i also dont care about the noise so im just getting round tubing and welding it on with 1/4 inch plate on top.

On the race car, we use the RE ones...but....cut out a flat piece of steel in a circle, and welded a bolt to the bottom to go through the RE piece and bolt to the coil bucket in the threaded hole. Ours has a nut welded to the coil bucket. Use some loc-tite and a big ol' pair of channel locks to tighten. It's worked well for us for two seasons.

got any pics of this set up?

 

[vetteboy]

I put them in around January 2009; logged almost 200 miles at the Hammers during KOH, pre-ran and tested/tuned 3 weekends worth of KOH Qualifying at Rausch, ran one short-course rock race, another woods race, finished a good portion of a 60-mile endurance race at Rausch, and sprinkled in there was about 20 days of rec wheeling.

The middle of the UHMW had a little dimple in it about 1/8" deep.

 

[CumminsJeep]

ive used UHMW for a few months now (4-5), i am on the air bumps a Lot, and have bombed it a whole lot...it hasnt even been gouged or marked up at all, just no dirt where they contact.

it wasnt expensive...i think i bought a 4x9 rod from mcmaster (to cut in half) for something like 20-30 bucks (had to turn it down on a lathe though, get 3.5 or something)

oh what do you know :finger:

 

[crazyjim]

Hmmmm, right on. This is looking more and more like something I'll run. If I don't just do tube with a steel top, I may do the UHMW with a steel top just for sake of mind.