Factory Installed Defective Jounce Bumpers 21 Tremor

[DukeCanBuildit]

Intimately familiar as they replaced the factory stops on my Ranger when I did my suspension. After fighting those bolts I'll never forget.

Shhhhhhh!

Doug, be quiet about those bolts - secretly hoping, you know.

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[JasonTremor]

I guess we can chalk up the jounce bumper ring up to a deleted cost savings. My 21 Tremor is missing it. You can tell they get used though. My guess is the ring provides a certain amount of extra load rating capacity. I feel slighted by Ford in a way, but will get over it I guess.

 

[Vitis805]

Here are mine for posterity

I can see where one could think the notches shouldn't be there and it should be completely filled top to bottom. Also, I think the rings might be exclusive to Supercabs.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

I guess we can chalk up the jounce bumper ring up to a deleted cost savings. My 21 Tremor is missing it. You can tell they get used though. My guess is the ring provides a certain amount of extra load rating capacity. I feel slighted by Ford in a way, but will get over it I guess.

My 2019 has it but WTH is it for? Does it do anything? Doubt it - or why get rid of it. But yeah, I can really see the OP’s big concern over those excess pieces of rubber/foam from the moulding process that weren’t trimmed properly so that when people are on their backs contorting to see up around the leafs and under the truck to see if the bumper meets FDA QA guidelines. ?

Is it me or does it look like a fleshlight with a, well, a, I mean, a, um, okay, um, a fleshlight ring? ?

 

[JasonTremor]

My 2019 has it but WTH is it for? Does it do anything? Doubt it - or why get rid of it. But yeah, I can really see the OP’s big concern over those excess pieces of rubber/foam from the moulding process that weren’t trimmed properly so that when people are on their backs contorting to see up around the leafs and under the truck to see if the bumper meets FDA QA guidelines. ?

Is it me or does it look like a fleshlight with a, well, a, I mean, a, um, okay, um, a fleshlight ring? ?

The ring may make it firmer and as a result last longer.

My 2019 has it but WTH is it for? Does it do anything? Doubt it - or why get rid of it. But yeah, I can really see the OP’s big concern over those excess pieces of rubber/foam from the moulding process that weren’t trimmed properly so that when people are on their backs contorting to see up around the leafs and under the truck to see if the bumper meets FDA QA guidelines. ?

Is it me or does it look like a fleshlight with a, well, a, I mean, a, um, okay, um, a fleshlight ring? ?

I'm pretty certain it increases the spring rate. I used to use plastic shims on the Miata builds I used to do. On those, the jounce went over the strut rod itself and we used shims to add progressive spring rate effect on compression.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Here are mine for posterity

I can see where one could think the notches shouldn't be there and it should be completely filled top to bottom. Also, I think the rings might be exclusive to Supercabs.

Nope, not exclusive to Scabs. @Ronbo has them on his Screw and check out his awesome grille!

 

[Danager]

ya'll should google fleshlight/exhaust

After being involved in enough questionable activity at work, they decided it would be best just to move me to HR. I started the new role a week ago. Now, 2-weeks-a-go Dan would have just blindly googled that.
Not anymore.

At least not at work

At least not on the company network

I mean, if I’m on break, maybe

Or at least in my office, nobody around

I should probably turn the sound off

 

[Vitis805]

Nope, not exclusive to Scabs. @Ronbo has them on his Screw

I stand corrected. What's interesting also is there seems to be at least two different styles of bump stops altogether. Check out @JasonTremor 's (and OP's)

compared to mine

The middle section is beefier and lower section is more conical. Maybe payload related?

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

I stand corrected. What's interesting also is there seems to be at least two different styles of bump stops altogether. Check out @JasonTremor 's (and OP's)



compared to mine

The middle section is beefier and lower section is more conical. Maybe payload related?

2019s might be different. Better, of course.

 

[Danager]

2019s might be different. Better, of course.

The ring is to support the added weight of the middle tie-downs?

 

[got3fords]

So what did we learn? OP got a free replacement on something that only supposed to be on the Tremor?

 

[Dereku]

Rubber engineer must live a boring life that's dull and lacks sensation. I am not a fan of rubber, get more sensation in life.

 

[GTHAYS]

I spent a week at a Holiday Inn Express one night.
Can I be an expert too?

Shsssshhh!, Captain Obvious....

 

[Jason B]

Is it me or does it look like a fleshlight with a, well, a, I mean, a, um, okay, um, a fleshlight ring? ?

I think you to discovered the purpose of the ring, it for extra 'grip'.

 

[deleriumtremor]

ya'll should google fleshlight/exhaust

Too funny.

I will ask my wife what something I saw or heard is and she might shrug and say, “I have no idea.” Then. If I say, “ok, I guess I will google it”, she will say,”don’t google ANYTHING you don’t know what it is, you don’t know what list you are going to get on!”

I always just go ahead and google it, given I know I am already on all the lists.

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