ipyro24 Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 (edited) Hey, I'm new here as well to solid rear end's... I thought I would come here to ask the question, been lurking for a while. Anyways, I lowered the rear of my 03 standard cab short bed with 2 inch beltech hangers, 2 inch shackles, and beltech nitrodrop shocks. I removed the stock bump stops and put in poly pancakes. It bottoms out over everything. So I raised the rear up one inch with a one inch drop shackle. Still the same, a little better, but bottoms out over everything. I lowerd the front with 1 inch Eibach coil springs, and nitrodorp shocks. It rides fine. It sits perfactly level right now, and I would like to keep it this way! Do you think I should put the stock shackels on, and just leave on the hangers for a 2 inch drop in the rear, and leave it 1 inch in the front? I appriciate any help in advance, this thing has been a major headache! Edited April 16, 2008 by ipyro24 (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaos Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 i have the same thing happen to me when i installed the hangers from djm im rite along with you hits every time over anything i have no idea how to stop this.i also need help with this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haul@ss Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 did you just replace the stock bumpstops with the new ones? if so, remove the whole stock bumpstop setup including the mounting bracket and mount the new bumpstop directly to the frame. There should already be a whole located near the stock mounting place. This should give you a lot more travel and stop the early bottoming out. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman31 Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 did you change the rear shocks at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakesvho Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 did you just replace the stock bumpstops with the new ones? if so, remove the whole stock bumpstop setup including the mounting bracket and mount the new bumpstop directly to the frame. There should already be a whole located near the stock mounting place. This should give you a lot more travel and stop the early bottoming out. Hope this helps. I have a 4" rear drop, took off the bracket added smaller bumpstop right to the frame no problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakesvho Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 did you just replace the stock bumpstops with the new ones? if so, remove the whole stock bumpstop setup including the mounting bracket and mount the new bumpstop directly to the frame. There should already be a whole located near the stock mounting place. This should give you a lot more travel and stop the early bottoming out. Hope this helps. I have a 4" rear drop, took off the bracket added smaller bumpstop right to the frame no problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yttaf Posted April 16, 2008 Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 I have a 4" rear drop, took off the bracket added smaller bumpstopright to the frame no problems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipyro24 Posted April 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2008 I totally removed the stock bump stop, and repplaced it with a super low profile poly one. I have Beltech nitrodrop 2 shocks in the rear also. And I raised it up to 3 inches, and it still bottoms out over everything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haul@ss Posted April 17, 2008 Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 I totally removed the stock bump stop, and repplaced it with a super low profile poly one. I have Beltech nitrodrop 2 shocks in the rear also. And I raised it up to 3 inches, and it still bottoms out over everything... did you mount it in the stock location? try mounting it in the other hole near it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipyro24 Posted April 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2008 Yah I tried removeing it completely, and it just hit the frame verry loud! Today I ended up putting on the stock shackels. So the rear is dropped 2 inches via hangers. And the front droped 1 inch via eibach springs. The truck rides 1000x better than it did before, and I reccomend the eibach for all of you who have front coil springs. Thanks so much for everyones help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTMD8R_SS Posted April 21, 2008 Report Share Posted April 21, 2008 Hmm.... Maybe you should try stiffer shocks if you decide to drop it down again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haul@ss Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 if it still bottomed out, you probably have a bad drop 2 shock from the factory or something.. only thing i can think of.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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