Are anyone elses' bump stops flattened out from turning too far? My tires are now rubbing and once were not due to these flattening out because they are cast into the soft aluminum. Let me know what you see.

 

Yeah I have noticed the same thing a couple of months ago, that's why I stop turning from lock to lock unless I need to.
BTW i have a lift.

 

I have a leveling kit and I also noticed that they were worn down. Today I even noticed what sounded like my tire rubbing on the right side on full lock turn out of the parking lot. I'll need to evaluate the situation. Thanks for the post.

 

I noticed the same thing. .

 

mind you please take a picture where you all talked about?

thanks
yoman

 

Ditto!

 

It's the steering stops molded into the aluminum lower control arms on the front ends that they are talking about. When you go to the stops on the steering wheel, they are eating away the aluminum. I have thought about fastening some sort of 1/4 inch plate, but not sure how.

 

chit! if i am thinkin about the same thing you all are talkin about my broke off on both sides!! They are kind of like thumbs they just stick out there right? when i bought my truck the guy said that with the steering system that you can turn the wheel all the way! wtf? are those things important?

 

Pics please?

 

Yes, post pics! I looked and I'm pretty sure I see what you're talking about. Mine is getting ground down pretty good! Any big problems with this?

 

 

yeah that's the little **** is that bad or what? cuz i am still under 36k

 

What is the view in that pic? What I mean is, are we looking from the front of the truck at the LCA, or from the rear? I'd like to see my bumpstops and check 'em out, so I need to know which way to look.

EDIT: Looks like the engineering "geniuses" forgot the fact that aluminum is softer than iron. Thus the blunting of the bumpstop. Oversights such as these should not be happening.

 

Umm, lifting the front end is what causes this. Without a lift the knuckle lines up correct with the stop. It's actually intended to hit right in the middle, not on the one side as the picture shows. Also, forget about blaming it on "engineering geniuses", but rather accept the fact that lifting a truck may cause some problems.

 

Funny thing about that is, I don't have any kind of lift and/or leveling kit, and my bumpstop is looking like that, only hitting in the middle. I looked this morning. So, see my above comment about soft Al and hard Fe.