Ok, we’re just about ready to do all the final installation
Of our suspension components
But there’s a couple of things I wanted to go over real quick
First thing here is, I made this bumpstop
And this bracket right here
To control basically the downward motion of the suspension
When the suspension fully droops out
The only thing that’s keeping it supported
Is the ball joint
And what happens is the ball joint completely
Gets to the end of it’s articulation, and it binds up
And so I wasn’t really comfortable with that
So I fabricated this bumpstop right here
And here’s the other one for the other side of the truck
It’s just a piece of tubing and I have some footage
That I’ll plug in right after this clip
But it’s just a polyurethane bump stop
Here’s the package
Energy Suspension part number 9.9101G
So, this was a pretty easy fabrication
Like I said, I have footage that I’ll throw up right after this clip
So that’s finished
That controls the downward motion of the suspension
It won’t likely ever come in contact unless I
Support the frame on jack stands or anything like that
Second is there is no provision on these new control arms
For this tab here that holds the brake line in place
So what I did is I just drilled a small 1/4” hole through
This bar, and it’s actually, it’s kind of surprising
These are not, these control arms are not made of tubing
They’re solid stock, So I just drilled a small 1/4” hole
Straight through, got a stainless steel fastener and a lock nut
So I’m just not comfortable having my brake line
Flopping around in there, so that was a modification that I made
You technically could use something like a zip tie but
Quite frankly thats just hack in my opinion
So all this is pretty much ready
We’ve just got to get the rest of our suspension
Get our spindle in place, our spring
And do the final assembly
And then tighten down all these fasteners
And then this part will be just about finished