Spring plate lowering

[JayWat]

Lowered a 76 1 inner spline.
What bottoms out first ?
The spring plate ?
The place that used to hold the bump stop ?
Or the stock length shock ?
Bottoming out on something solid and I can't see where.

[Starbucket]

Have someone jump up and down on the rear bumper while you watch under the car and see what is hitting. My money is on the shock.

[JayWat]

The car is too low to see what's going on.
I may remove the shocks temporarily and take it for a drive.
Anyone know a shorter shock part number that has been used successfully ?

[Starbucket]

All the vw suppliers sell them, cip1 jbugs, wolfsburg west, etc..

[clockworkbox]

If it is hitting the bump stop stub (assuming you removed the rubber bump stops), you should be able to see if the trailing arm made contact. There should be some kind of scrape or paint missing from the stub and/or the stop on the chassis.
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[VW_Jimbo]

Get your phone in there and pointed in the direction. Then, if you can see the screen, see what is happening. If not, take a video of it, then watch that.
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[Buggeee]

Aside from the shock, between the spring plate or the naked bump stop, it would be the spring plate. People notch them as one method of winning the limbo contest.
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[JayWat]

So, spring plate will hit the stop before the naked bump stop correct ?