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[Chris D.]

Yikes, I've already had two of the bumpstops in my Fat Cat kit come unglued and now one of the upper spring perches has come off as well!

Has anyone devised a more permanent method of attaching these parts? It seemed a little goofy to me to be using Gorilla Glue in a race car suspension....for any suspension actually.

It makes me nervous to think what will happen if a spring happens to become unloaded in the midst of a turn and that upper perch doesn't quite pop back in the same spot.

[Cy Peake]

Mine too. Pull them off and apply more gorilla. I didn't bother to glue the bumpstops.

[FTodaro]

Yikes, I've already had two of the bumpstops in my Fat Cat kit come unglued and now one of the upper spring perches has come off as well!

Has anyone devised a more permanent method of attaching these parts? It seemed a little goofy to me to be using Gorilla Glue in a race car suspension....for any suspension actually.

It makes me nervous to think what will happen if a spring happens to become unloaded in the midst of a turn and that upper perch doesn't quite pop back in the same spot.

I notice my right front came off too. I took a wire brunch on the end of a drill and cleaned off the old glue re glued it with Gorilla glue and I must not have kept enough pressure on it as it did not hold. so I bought some two part epoxy glue and re cleaned the surface and That did it. Solid now.

I have heard of guys drilling a hole into the mettal frame and using a tie wrap. I have not done that.

[Keith Novak]

Little bitty zip ties...

I originally put them on to see if I was hitting the bump stops. I was, but apparently that's not such a bad thing. When you do hit the bump stops, it will push that little zip tie up and prevent the bump stop from sliding down the shock.