Newbie question

[Emperor]

What are bumpstops?

[pervert]

Usually rubber devices used for when the car bottoms out.

When the suspension compresses to its full travel, rather than bottoming right out, and bad things happening, it hits rubber bumpstops.

Someone else will be able to give a better description.

[FST4RD]

Yeah i'd agree, when i bought my ZR4 ages ago, one of the bumpstops was missing and everytime the suspention bottomed out it made a disturbing clang metal on metal noise!!! Got it fixed quick smart, only cost a couple of dollars.

[pervert]

Thats what it will do, instead of hitting rubber, you'll hit metal on metal when it bottoms out...not good.

My car is currently resting on bumpstops in the back, thats not fun either...

[Emperor]

So where d othe bump stops actually do? Pics?

[pervert]

So where d othe bump stops actually do? Pics?

Aye???

They make it so that instead of hitting metal on metal, they hit metal on rubber, much softer landing...

[Dell'Orto]

If you mean where do they do, they go at the top of the spring, in the middle of it in the older live axle cars

[Dr-X]

There's lots of different types of bump stops. The simplest type is just a rubber 'cylinder' over the strut piston that stops it from going to full travel.

[Emperor]

Thanks Dr X, that answered my question

[Loudtoy]

Basicly bump stops should be full travel, if there were no bump stops there and you hit say a massive bump of something the shocks could (extreme cases) pop the rods straight out through the bottom or not so bad but still not good over compress and hit metal on metal - generally the noise you here is the main rod hitting on the bottom of the shock casing.
Hope that makes sense a little i can't remember what all the names for the parts of the shocks are!

[EVL20V]

if u find a bumpstop in ur car get it taken out ASAP!! i cant stress this enuf, very foolish 2 have them in.

na they just like a door stop to take the impact

[Lloyd]

Sorry for the size of the pic, its only 47k though. Bump stop is the black rubber stopper over the piston on the shockie. Whent he shock is fully compressed that bumpstop gets squashed against the hat bit at the top instead of the shock casing smashing against it and sounding horrible and damaging things.

If you had a vehicle with very low suspension then the shockies are compressed as the car is sitting lower and if you go low enough then you end up sitting on the bumpstops and having no shockie travel basically *looks at Pervert*

Typical 4x4 bumpstop here too: http://keptar.terep.hu/albumok/album09/Bumpstop.sized.jpg

[pervert]

Haha don't look at me...its only sitting on bumpstops in the ass end.

And they are getting halved tommorrow...