Front Upper Bump Stop Extension Ideas

[NashvilleTJ]

Tennis balls, hockey pucks, or dirty Vietnam underwear, let's not forget my favorite option:

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…and the squeaking version of that duck would be perfect!

 

[NskLJ]

I know I shouldn't, but I can't stop myself. How does this even work? You just toss them in willy nilly in the coil and let them bounce around?

I guess you could use a combination of Tennis balls, racket balls, handballs and pickle balls until you get the compression resistance just right.

 

[srimes]

I guess you could use a combination of Tennis balls, racket balls, handballs and pickle balls until you get the compression resistance just right.

Do it right, do it once. A single football is adjustable.

 

[kmas0n]

I guess you could use a combination of Tennis balls, racket balls, handballs and pickle balls until you get the compression resistance just right.

I think I just found a new use for all those rubber ducks I get

 

[Old Jeepin Cowboy]

Can you surmise how a measured stack of hockey pucks might work differently as a bump stop extension, compared to stuffing loose tennis balls inside the coil would? What kind of an engineer, consultant, and Jeep builder were you?

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy that posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the job above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobra's and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaro's. I lost 1 race and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift in year 2. I did all my own work.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000. From there (Dallas) I moved to Scottsdale AZ to go wheeling. Centrally located between Utah, Mexico and California, and Texas. I wheeled full time for the next 9 years. Often gone for weeks at a time, wife loved it I was out of her hair...

Today, I still own 2 companies, one will be listed for sale tomorrow. My other company is going into its 14th year of business.

YES, I am an old man, am knocking on the door of 80.

YES I had the first Jeep Rubicon delivered to the public, only because I was consulting to Chrysler-Jeep at the time and when I negotiated my contract I asked for a deal on ordering a new Jeep...no problem they said. My Jeep came in on the 2nd week in Aug with another Jeep that was going to the Training Center in Dallas, Tx.

Ok, answered your question and there is a lot more I have done over my lifetime...

 

[jjvw]

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy that posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the job above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobra's and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaro's. I lost 1 race and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift in year 2. I did all my own work.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000. From there (Dallas) I moved to Scottsdale AZ to go wheeling. Centrally located between Utah, Mexico and California, and Texas. I wheeled full time for the next 9 years. Often gone for weeks at a time, wife loved it I was out of her hair...

Today, I still own 2 companies, one will be listed for sale tomorrow. My other company is going into its 14th year of business.

YES, I am an old man, am knocking on the door of 80.

YES I had the first Jeep Rubicon delivered to the public, only because I was consulting to Chrysler-Jeep at the time and when I negotiated my contract I asked for a deal on ordering a new Jeep...no problem they said. My Jeep came in on the 2nd week in Aug with another Jeep that was going to the Training Center in Dallas, Tx.

Ok, answered your question and there is a lot more I have done over my lifetime...

All this does is confuse me further as to why you think tennis balls should be inside coil springs and that the alternate use of hockey pucks is mysterious to you.

 

[Murf926]

All this does is confuse me further as to why you think tennis balls should be inside coil springs and that the alternate use of hockey pucks is mysterious to you.

I was thinking the exact same thing. But on a positive note, I now know who to go to if I ever need my nuclear warhead serviced.

 

[JpZombie]

I guess I'll just go ahead and say it...honestly you just come across like you are full of shit. You pop up on the forum within the last month and then basically start swinging your dick around in every thread about your knowledge/experience...but then tell someone to put fucking tennis balls inside their springs? Come on now. I'm actually shocked you left Navy Seal off your resume. I'll take it all back if you start your own thread posting up further evidence to support all the things you listed as having done.

 

[srimes]

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy that posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the job above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobra's and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaro's. I lost 1 race and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift in year 2. I did all my own work.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000. From there (Dallas) I moved to Scottsdale AZ to go wheeling. Centrally located between Utah, Mexico and California, and Texas. I wheeled full time for the next 9 years. Often gone for weeks at a time, wife loved it I was out of her hair...

Today, I still own 2 companies, one will be listed for sale tomorrow. My other company is going into its 14th year of business.

YES, I am an old man, am knocking on the door of 80.

YES I had the first Jeep Rubicon delivered to the public, only because I was consulting to Chrysler-Jeep at the time and when I negotiated my contract I asked for a deal on ordering a new Jeep...no problem they said. My Jeep came in on the 2nd week in Aug with another Jeep that was going to the Training Center in Dallas, Tx.

Ok, answered your question and there is a lot more I have done over my lifetime...

Impressive if true

 

[Murf926]

I've used hockey pucks, Don't glue them down, run a bolt through them with a large washer on top and then through the lower spring perch.

x2 for hockey pucks.

I counter sunk mine to bring the top of the bolt flush with the top of the puck. I actually needed just a bit more than the 1” the puck gave, so I cut some 3” dia disks out of some 1/4” aluminum stock to add to the bottom of the puck.

Unfortunately for the OP who was looking for a solution that doesn’t require coil spring removal, this does require that for initial setup in order to drill and tap a hole in the spring perch to bolt the pucks to. Once that threaded hole is there though, you can add, remove or replace pucks without spring removal.

 

[CMBD]

The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good.

Truly brilliant and talented engineers don't need to go on telling people they are engineers and how good they are.

 

[Old Jeepin Cowboy]

Can you surmise how a measured stack of hockey pucks might work differently as a bump stop extension, compared to stuffing loose tennis balls inside the coil would? What kind of an engineer, consultant, and Jeep builder were you?

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy who posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the jobs above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobras and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaros. I lost 1 race over 3 seasons and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift. I did all my own work. My last race was in the season of 67 and on the last day I broke the national record for C Sports running a 12.31 sec time.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center, which was NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed over the time I ran it as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000.

After that, I Became a Welder & Metal Fabrication building custom Bumpers and rocker guards for Jeeps. 8 years later I retired from Jeeping altogether. At the end of 8 years I was burnt out from full-time wheeling, welding, and fabbing, sold all my Jeeps and headed home to Texas.

Got to Texas, bought a ranch and started another company that I still run today.

I will either die with a chainsaw in my hands or on the seat of a John Deere... I come from a ranching family going back to the 1830s and you never retire!

 

[srimes]

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy who posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the jobs above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobras and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaros. I lost 1 race over 3 seasons and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift. I did all my own work. My last race was in the season of 67 and on the last day I broke the national record for C Sports running a 12.31 sec time.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center, which was NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed over the time I ran it as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000.

After that, I Became a Welder & Metal Fabrication building custom Bumpers and rocker guards for Jeeps. 8 years later I retired from Jeeping altogether. At the end of 8 years I was burnt out from full-time wheeling, welding, and fabbing, sold all my Jeeps and headed home to Texas.

Got to Texas, bought a ranch and started another company that I still run today.

I will either die with a chainsaw in my hands or on the seat of a John Deere... I come from a ranching family going back to the 1830s and you never retire!

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about oranges.

 

[Old Jeepin Cowboy]

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about oranges.

I don't write poems about oranges, sorry...

 

[jjvw]

This is all very strange.

 

[CMBD]

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy that posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the job above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobra's and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaro's. I lost 1 race and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift in year 2. I did all my own work.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000. From there (Dallas) I moved to Scottsdale AZ to go wheeling. Centrally located between Utah, Mexico and California, and Texas. I wheeled full time for the next 9 years. Often gone for weeks at a time, wife loved it I was out of her hair...

Today, I still own 2 companies, one will be listed for sale tomorrow. My other company is going into its 14th year of business.

YES, I am an old man, am knocking on the door of 80.

YES I had the first Jeep Rubicon delivered to the public, only because I was consulting to Chrysler-Jeep at the time and when I negotiated my contract I asked for a deal on ordering a new Jeep...no problem they said. My Jeep came in on the 2nd week in Aug with another Jeep that was going to the Training Center in Dallas, Tx.

Ok, answered your question and there is a lot more I have done over my lifetime...

I have no idea about the hockey puck, you need to ask the guy who posted it, I never used them.

Since you asked: Nuclear Warhead Mechanical-Electrical Engineer. The fact that I just wrote this tells you I must have been very good. I worked in a Zero-Defect environment. We 2 full sets of tools and all tools were inspected and the torque wrenches were calibrated every day, so you never had an uncalibrated tool.

From there I became an automotive engineer which was very general, I worked on almost everything. For me mostly engines, standard transmissions, axles and suspension.

Both of the jobs above were ho-hum to me, the feds started reducing our nuclear warhead count so I figured I better search for another field and since I was a Racer and worked on my car and back in the 64-67 timeframe. I ran C-Sports and raced against Cobras and HiPo. Mustangs and Camaros. I lost 1 race over 3 seasons and that was due to my rear axle exploding on my 1 > 2 shift. I did all my own work. My last race was in the season of 67 and on the last day I broke the national record for C Sports running a 12.31 sec time.

After that, I found my calling in life: Software, Network, Systems Integration, and Hardware, I am certified in all those fields as an Engineer and Data Center IT Architect. I built the first TELCO (Telephone Company) Grade Data center, which was NOT built by a TELCO. It on the first floor of the InfoMart in Dallas. It never crashed over the time I ran it as I built to 5 x 9s standards.

I have consulted for many Fortune 250 Inc's: Apple, United Airlines, and American Airlines, and I have a list of 457 clients I had worked with when I sold my company in 2000.

After that, I Became a Welder & Metal Fabrication building custom Bumpers and rocker guards for Jeeps. 8 years later I retired from Jeeping altogether. At the end of 8 years I was burnt out from full-time wheeling, welding, and fabbing, sold all my Jeeps and headed home to Texas.

Got to Texas, bought a ranch and started another company that I still run today.

I will either die with a chainsaw in my hands or on the seat of a John Deere... I come from a ranching family going back to the 1830s and you never retire!

This sequel to yesterdays post isn't helping your credibility at all

 

[Old Jeepin Cowboy]

I guess I'll just go ahead and say it...honestly you just come across like you are full of shit. You pop up on the forum within the last month and then basically start swinging your dick around in every thread about your knowledge/experience...but then tell someone to put fucking tennis balls inside their springs? Come on now. I'm actually shocked you left Navy Seal off your resume. I'll take it all back if you start your own thread posting up further evidence to support all the things you listed as having done.

OK, I got it, you cannot post on here until you have been ordained by you and how long is the waiting time before I am allowed to post. I did not see that. in the rules.

I was on this forum before because I remember Mr Blaine he and I spoke often here and on the fone. If any is the smartest guy in the room it's him.

I don't tell ANYONE what they have to do, I say what I have done.

As for tennis balls in springs, its an old trick NOT invented by me.

What I have noticed on here is the verbal ATTACKS. This is the difference between many of you and me, I have been Jeeping since the early '60s...at one time Jeeping was a community of folks who respected you and your rig was just another Jeep that. you built your way, your wallet your pride of ride and every respected you and your Jeep.

As for tennis balls, goes back a long time and were used by a lot of folks back then and I could tell you why, but let you figure it out for yourself. YES there is a reason.

I love Jeeps and always have my first experience was a ride in a Jeep in 1949 in Post WWII Germany and I have been hooked ever since...

So you boys keep up the attacks I find them interesting and mostly comical...

So have a good day and keep the hits coming...

 

[JpZombie]

OK, I got it, you cannot post on here until you have been ordained by you and how long is the waiting time before I am allowed to post. I did not see that. in the rules.

I was on this forum before because I remember Mr Blaine he and I spoke often here and on the fone. If any is the smartest guy in the room it's him.

I don't tell ANYONE what they have to do, I say what I have done.

As for tennis balls in springs, its an old trick NOT invented by me.

What I have noticed on here is the verbal ATTACKS. This is the difference between many of you and me, I have been Jeeping since the early '60s...at one time Jeeping was a community of folks who respected you and your rig was just another Jeep that. you built your way, your wallet your pride of ride and every respected you and your Jeep.

As for tennis balls, goes back a long time and were used by a lot of folks back then and I could tell you why, but let you figure it out for yourself. YES there is a reason.

I love Jeeps and always have my first experience was a ride in a Jeep in 1949 in Post WWII Germany and I have been hooked ever since...

So you boys keep up the attacks I find them interesting and mostly comical...

So have a good day and keep the hits coming...

Are you sure we can’t get a poem about oranges?

 

[Artsifrtsi]

How are tennis balls used in the suspension of a '60 era Jeep.... SMFH...

The only use for tennis balls in offroad vehicles is to keep your antenna from slapping the vehicle body...

 

[jjvw]

OK, I got it, you cannot post on here until you have been ordained by you and how long is the waiting time before I am allowed to post. I did not see that. in the rules.

I was on this forum before because I remember Mr Blaine he and I spoke often here and on the fone. If any is the smartest guy in the room it's him.

I don't tell ANYONE what they have to do, I say what I have done.

As for tennis balls in springs, its an old trick NOT invented by me.

What I have noticed on here is the verbal ATTACKS. This is the difference between many of you and me, I have been Jeeping since the early '60s...at one time Jeeping was a community of folks who respected you and your rig was just another Jeep that. you built your way, your wallet your pride of ride and every respected you and your Jeep.

As for tennis balls, goes back a long time and were used by a lot of folks back then and I could tell you why, but let you figure it out for yourself. YES there is a reason.

I love Jeeps and always have my first experience was a ride in a Jeep in 1949 in Post WWII Germany and I have been hooked ever since...

So you boys keep up the attacks I find them interesting and mostly comical...

So have a good day and keep the hits coming...

The issue is your massive lack of awareness. We have long moved past 2002 in building techniques. We have long moved past any hero worship that the Rubicon is anything special beyond the transfer case and the potential for 538 gears. No one of any consequence would have ever seriously suggested tennis balls as a method of bump stop to begin with, let alone continue to defend it. Then your defense as an authority on your weird ideas is that you are a nuclear rocket doctor who owns businesses, and therefore smart.

This is almost as if Jerry's long lost brother walked out of the woods two weeks ago and joined the Internet.