So my HD's were leaking, so they sent me new ones as per the lifetime warranty. I figured it would be a good time to throw on some H&R's at the same time. As many of you know, bottoming out is a problem with this combo. With the help of Ryan G and his shop, we manged to get rid of most of the internal bumpstop on the HD's, and I thought I would share it, with those who were wondering the same.
It was way easier than I imagined.
The best way we found was to put the cap at the bottom end of the strut in a vise and kind of twist the yellow case to break it free. At that point you can just pull it all out and the bump stop is clearly visible.
Some people say that if you can remove it all and that if you are going to hit something hard enough to bottom that out then you have bigger issues, which may be true. I however decided to leave about 1/3 of the bump stop in.
so far I have not bottomed out on anything, even the places local to Ryan where he mentioned that he often bottomed out on in his old iX with the same set up, minus the bump stop trim. Could not be happier with this set up, subtle yet noticeable drop, and better handling, and best of all no bottoming out.
It was way easier than I imagined.
The best way we found was to put the cap at the bottom end of the strut in a vise and kind of twist the yellow case to break it free. At that point you can just pull it all out and the bump stop is clearly visible.
Some people say that if you can remove it all and that if you are going to hit something hard enough to bottom that out then you have bigger issues, which may be true. I however decided to leave about 1/3 of the bump stop in.
so far I have not bottomed out on anything, even the places local to Ryan where he mentioned that he often bottomed out on in his old iX with the same set up, minus the bump stop trim. Could not be happier with this set up, subtle yet noticeable drop, and better handling, and best of all no bottoming out.
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