lowered truck height

Ft.mac6.4 · Oct 20, 2016

I just did ny truck about a month ago or so.. Cut stock coils and removed all rear block(f350) and trimmed bump stops. It hardly hits. But you got me interested in this hydro bump stop setup

Vader's Fury · Oct 20, 2016

I have been looking into the Hydro bump stops as well, but kinda hard to swallow the price to try them out.

Hoping someone has success with them so I can feel comfortable trying them out. I think they could be the answer.

White_monster · Oct 20, 2016

As soon as I get mine I'll be installing them. Factory bumps stops are 3" tall. If I can mount them 1" above the bump stop pad I'll leave them at 2" stroke. If not I'll shorten the stroke by 1/2" so I'm not always on them. After that it will be trial and error with nitrogen pressure to settle on ride characteristics. Updates will be in a new thread.

Vader's Fury · Oct 21, 2016

Do you plan to mount them into the frame? I have thought about getting spring mounts made by PMF and mounting them inside the center of the coil spring. Seems it would be easier to mount them that way and wouldn't require modifying the frame. If you ever want to return to factory, just unbolt the upper spring mount and install the factory mount.

Should be easy enough to modify the lower spring perch to also act as a flat spot for the nitrogen bumpstop to ride against.

I had actually hoped to discuss this with Trevor but have had to put my Excursion project on the back burner to fix a few 6.0 that found there way into my shop.

White_monster · Oct 21, 2016

That's another option. Likely I'll weld them into the frame and if I ever sell the truck I'll just remove the bump stops and leave the sleeves in the frame.

akf250 · Oct 26, 2016

Sleeve

White_monster said:
That's another option. Likely I'll weld them into the frame and if I ever sell the truck I'll just remove the bump stops and leave the sleeves in the frame.

Do you have a specific sleeve part number?

The only sleeves I've been able to find are 90's that mount on the edge of the rail not through the middle.

White_monster · Oct 27, 2016

akf250 said:
Do you have a specific sleeve part number?

The only sleeves I've been able to find are 90's that mount on the edge of the rail not through the middle.

The sleeves are just previously sized tubes. I'll post pics in my build thread when they arrive.