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New to this site and looking for a little advise. I have a Dodge Ram 1500 Ext Cab and just put a 7 1/2 Curtis SNO-PRO 3000 on the front.
Plan on supplimenting my income and plowing some neighbors driveways + my own (last winter SUCKd) .
I noticed the front end sinks pretty low when the blade is up, read a fiew posts about the timbrens and invested the $140+ on a set for the front.
Install instructions and everyone elses posts led me to believe the install would be no more time consuming than 30 miutes and I figured I'd save the $60+ they wanted to install them.
Jacked up one side of the truck, pride the bump stop out of the bump stop cup..no problem. Took a couple 4"x4" pieces of steel, each piece bout 1/2" thick , set those on top of the flat surface on the axle where the bump stop would meet the axle, placed the timbrens on the make shift shimms, lined up the spacer that sits atop the timbren and inserts into the bump stop cup and lowered the vehicle. It would not fit.......it compressed the timbren, but no matter what I did, while trying to press the spacer into the bump stop cup it would not go.
today i called timbren's "techinical support" and they suggested I put the spacer to the grinder and remove material so that it will fit....i did this and used a rasp file as well and sculpted, in my opinion, what I believe is a remarkable likeness of the original short of breaking out calipers and measuring for accuracy. It still would not go
My question(s)-- is this common? Has anyone had a similar problem they were able to resolve? Am I on the rite track or should I just admit defeat and pay the $60+ for the install?
:headwall
Plan on supplimenting my income and plowing some neighbors driveways + my own (last winter SUCKd) .
I noticed the front end sinks pretty low when the blade is up, read a fiew posts about the timbrens and invested the $140+ on a set for the front.
Install instructions and everyone elses posts led me to believe the install would be no more time consuming than 30 miutes and I figured I'd save the $60+ they wanted to install them.
Jacked up one side of the truck, pride the bump stop out of the bump stop cup..no problem. Took a couple 4"x4" pieces of steel, each piece bout 1/2" thick , set those on top of the flat surface on the axle where the bump stop would meet the axle, placed the timbrens on the make shift shimms, lined up the spacer that sits atop the timbren and inserts into the bump stop cup and lowered the vehicle. It would not fit.......it compressed the timbren, but no matter what I did, while trying to press the spacer into the bump stop cup it would not go.
today i called timbren's "techinical support" and they suggested I put the spacer to the grinder and remove material so that it will fit....i did this and used a rasp file as well and sculpted, in my opinion, what I believe is a remarkable likeness of the original short of breaking out calipers and measuring for accuracy. It still would not go
My question(s)-- is this common? Has anyone had a similar problem they were able to resolve? Am I on the rite track or should I just admit defeat and pay the $60+ for the install?
:headwall