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I recently replaced the front suspension springs and shock absorbers. I have had the car 20 years and that was one of the first jobs I had completed on the car. After 20 years it was time to do them again. Time flies, and all that… While changing the springs and shocks I noticed the front rubber bump stops were a bit rough, so as you need to have the suspension in pieces to change them, that seem to be a good opportunity. Once it was all back together, it occurred to me to check the rear bump stops as well. Just as well as one was missing and the other fell off in my hand at the lightest pressure. You Californians and your hot sunny weather don’t know how lucky you are! The picture below will give you some idea of how bad they were.  The new ones are sold as the rubber bump stop, and the fixing bracket as two separate items. If your brackets are in good condition, you can just replace the rubber, but as the brackets were beyond salvaging, new brackets and rubber bump stops were ordered.  Once the bump stops were bolted to the brackets, I coated them with underseal to help preserve them.  As with all project on the car, I try to replace standard steel bolts with stainless steel as British weather is pretty unforgiving. I bought some bolts, washers and flanged Nyloc nuts.  The holes through the body were a little clogged with underseal and dirt, so a pass through with a drill cleaned them out.  Once the bolts passed through the holes easily, the exposed metal work was coated in rust killer and left for 24 hours to work.  After the rust killer was cleaned off, a couple of coats of silver Hammerite was applied to seal the metalwork (I was out of black paint). Once the paint had dried, the new brackets and bump stops were fitted and bolted up.   To finish the job off, lashings of underseal where applied.  Not the most exciting job, but necessary to prevent damage if you hit a large pot hole in the road. Hopefully, a job that won’t need doing again for many years yet…
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