Lift damage?

[bigmaninds]

I do believe they are longer just not too much

[bigmaninds]

Hope it was ok to borrow that pic....

[Matt]

Those are the coils. I'm talking about the coil bodies (some people call them struts).

Reason I ask is, there are different ways to achieve lift "height". You can have coil bodies that are the same exact length as stock, but have the lower spring perched up higher to add preload to the spring which gives you a higher ride height. With that setup, when the suspension is fully extended it's no different than a stock vehicle. The other option is a longer coil body which achieves the increased height from just being longer; so when the spring is compressed like normal you still attain lift. With that kind, the suspension will drop further than a stock suspension setup would (in most cases) since the coil body is usually the travel limiter.

If the OME coil bodies are longer than stock, you may be pushing the suspension too far with the additional spacer on top. If the coil bodies are the same length as stock, then the 3/8" spacer shouldnt be a problem at full extension; no worse than ours with a 2" spacer anyways.

The other option is the spring perch on the OME is a larger diameter than stock and thereby interfering.

[bigmaninds]

oh yeah I forgot, no sway bars up front or in rear... if I put the on I am thinking that it might stop rubbing....

[Matt]

that may not be a bad idea.

If you're dropping down far enough to cause that much interference, you're probably at too much of an angle to get any significant torque out of the CV's and may be doing more harm than it's worth.

[txbajacommander]

It looks like you have OME struts up front, maybe they are the 2" ones not stock. They look like the same ones I have. Although it's hard to tell just from pics. With no sway bar up front you might be getting to much travel. Without changing anything you could add limiting straps up front. that would fix to much down travel, assuming it was down travel that caused the rub.

[Sal-XK]

I would go with the limiting straps over leaving the sway bar connected while off road IMHO.