Prothane coil spring inserts for TJs revision 2.1
or ... hard core in soft prothanes
UPDATE :
My last trip to LIWA with Sluggy unveiled a slight shortcoming of the Prothanes in the front:
My 10" travel Bilsteins are compressed 14.5" long ... and would need ~1.5" bump stop extension over stock to have the right protection against bottoming out ... leaving me at 5.5" uptravel.
Under REAL hard bumps it happens that the prothanes compress slightly more than expected ... and my front right shock bottomed out once, but fortunately not hard enough to break.
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My upper jounce cups got replaced by those nice stamp thinggies which are about 0.5" shorter than the cups...
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Soooooo ... before DesNav 2013 I urgently needed something which finally bumps out hard at a specified length ... if the impact was hard enough to compress the prothanes beyond needed minimum
Went to Hani and ordered THIS (nylon turning shop fab!)
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about 0.5" longer than the needed 1.5" (see shorter stamp thinggies above)
and just wide enough to be pressed by hand into the hollow prothanes as short hard core!!!
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RESULT : YESSSS it worked ... and there was enough during our DesNav 2013 run to test it.
(... ahhemm ... one of those mean ruts caused my passenger side front bumper to get slightly bent and my led light on that corner to fold back ... now my steering wheel is 45 degrees off center to the left
![Confused :?](./images/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif)
... what more test can Sluggy take?
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
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My front shocks are OK!!!
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