Bumpstop Upgrades - Front 2017 1500 Regular Cab

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So I have my Ram setup for driving in the high dunes in Abu Dhabi. I have 2.5" reservoir shocks front and rear with about a 2" lift. The front shocks are awesome on the highway and light bumps, but if I go airborn or hit a ditch hard it bottoms out hard. I'd love to be able to upgrade the front bumps tops, which are just those foam pads wrapped around the front shock shaft, but I don't see any good options. I'd love to be able to put some hydraulic bump stops on, but I have no idea how they would be mounted. Does anyone have any info on some high performance bump stops from the front?
 

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You’ll have to have somebody weld hyd bumpstop brackets to the frame. There are 2.0-2.5 hydraulic bumpstops available in the aftermarket that can be mounted but there is nothing specific for the RAM so whoever is welding the brackets will have to figure out how long of hyd cans you’ll need. The bumpad will have to be your factory LCA unless the cans can be placed In such a way that they strike the UCAs. I have been looking around some custom fab but it’s expensive and because I’m not jumping the truck I really haven’t have much incentive to go ahead and get it done plus the LCAs are aluminum. They’re tough but how tough to wishtand been striked by 2.0 or 2.5 cans ?

External bypasses in the front are a more elegant solution, that or IBPs. In either case what you have now for Coilovers will have to go. 2.5 hyd cans with mounts will prob be close to the price of your coilovers so getting that extra cushioning is expensive regardless of how you get there.
IBPs coilovers or external ones are packaged in a single unit so fitting will be easier and there is no need for those external hyd bumptop cans. External bypasses will make a lot of noise, IBPs won’t, externals will give you absolute max performance if you’re jumping the truck. Nobody saved for the long travel kits have anything as such available for our trucks so it’ll have to be custom fab as well even if you’re doing any of the LT kits available from Dirt King or Gunnar.
 
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Yeah, I figured I probably have to have someone fab up something for mounting hydraulic bump stops, but the guys here aren't super technical. They like to copy stuff that other people do, not figure it out themselves. So I was hoping maybe there was some example of how to get the hydraulic bump stop to hit the lower control arm.
 

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What setup are you running?
 
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What setup are you running?
I have profender 2.5", external reservoir shocks here, front and rear. The profenders are really popular out here. They're a Thai brand, but about half the price of US stuff, and pretty good too. They're really popular out here in the UAE. There aren't many people taking their Ram into the desert like I am though, so not many solutions available for proper bump stops.
 

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There's really not, and its unfortunate too because a viable platform with a little work. In the rear you could get away with Sd springs sumo springs which are micro cellular foam and would be lightly progressive. Up front, like noted Bypass or internal bypasses are your only true bolt in solution. Which sucks a bit for you having to replace perfectly good shocks. I'd lean that way a little before going full custom fab.

I feel your pain, im currently trying to source go fast parts for my jeep and where I live its all rock crawlers so I get zero help as well. Post up some more pics of your setup when you can, I'd like to see what ya got!
 
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All the jeep builds out here are go fast. I'll see if I can get some recommendations if you're interested.
 

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All the jeep builds out here are go fast. I'll see if I can get some recommendations if you're interested.
So for some reason I didn't get notified of your reply. I'm for sure curious to see what you guys do for setups! Considering desert is your genre I'm sure there's something adaptable or an idea I haven't seen yet.

In the rear of our trucks, prothane coil inserts would be easy to stuff inside the coils to get some progressivity out back. Up front, im still looking for ideas, our lcas don't have much extra room on them to land anything. Best I can visualize is the rear of the lower arm pretty much in line with the UCA rear bolt. You "might" be able to squeeze a 2" bump can in there under the UCA, but its hard to say there's enough room with everything at full droop if it would clear. Even then Idk how the aluminum arms will like being used as a strike pad directly.
 
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So I knew I had seen front bumps on a stock truck and I finally figured it out.
@ram1500rsm @Kevin petro this changes things a little as I know this truck has been tortured and there's obviously been zero issues with the air bumps up front or that would have been mentioned. I'll try and dig through Peterson's and see if I can find the origional build articles. Maybe we aren't screwed after all!
 

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Dabbing hydro bumps would be best……or doing some more shock tuning to take bigger hits. I’ve had my kings valving played with 3 times. Granted I’m a 2500 but a shock is a shock lol
 

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I blogged about the cans Autoedit has in this truck, post#354,355 and 357 here.
I think @hodge-xj was going to ask Jason in IG about the setup.

Tuning your shocks for more impact resistance as indicated by @22hemi13 is also a very good idea. I had to do that with my OE Kings cause the fronts were topping out on the rough stuff and i told Accutune when they did my shock tunning i wanted to fix that and also include the extra weight i had in my truck in the valving equation. I'm still not jumping the truck but i haven't topped out the shocks like it used to happen before and i can drive her a lot more aggresivelly than before around washboards and small/medium size hoops.
 

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I blogged about the cans Autoedit has in this truck, post#354,355 and 357 here.
I think @hodge-xj was going to ask Jason in IG about the setup.

Tuning your shocks for more impact resistance as indicated by @22hemi13 is also a very good idea. I had to do that with my OE Kings cause the fronts were topping out on the rough stuff and i told Accutune when they did my shock tunning i wanted to fix that and also include the extra weight i had in my truck in the valving equation. I'm still not jumping the truck but i haven't topped out the shocks like it used to happen before and i can drive her a lot more aggresivelly than before around washboards and small/medium size hoops.
Of all the things you post and I never saw that back then....wtf lol. I would look into shock tuning as priority 1 as you can really step up the potential in those coilovers with just that alone. Than I would look into bump cans.

If the stars moon and Jupiter align in the 3rd retrograde and I do calculus right I'll have my truck paid off and the DK setup next year and I'll sort out some bump cans and share the wealth.

I'm mostly concerned about a skid right now for the plastic trans pan......
 
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Most of the pics don't work for me but....according to this RAM engineers say the LCA is forged aluminum and plenty strong.... hmm
Interesting article. I can't see most of the pictures either. It looks like in your first post they just welded the air bump cans straight on the frame rather than using some sort of bracket. I don't really have the option to leave my truck at the shop right now to fabricate something like this, but maybe I can talk to my mechanic to see what he could do.
 
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