<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I’ll add a twist on this. I put the disc brake conversion on my Alpine. The caliper is positioned such that if the rear compresses enough, the lip of the frame above the rear end will hit the parking brake spring part of the caliper before any stop is hit. I don’t know that I have ever hit such a bump that has caused anywhere near that kind of compression. But it still makes me nervous. I’ve been debating adding a bigger stop inside the shock itself (the are Konis, which I think do have such stops), or rotating the caliper to a different position. The problem with the different position is that the parking brake rod and cable will no longer work.<div><br></div><div>Just a thought to add to the collective knowledge.<br><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 5, 2026, at 7:33 PM, Gary Winblad <winbladgary@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div>Terry,</div><div>I bet Tom Hall could give you those answers.</div><div>My stock Tiger is lowered with ground down rubber spring pads and stock sagged springs, don't think it ever bottoms. Might be due to the shock setting.</div><div>Gary Winblad</div><div><br></div></div><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM Terry Packer via Tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr">I'd like to investigate whether intermittent contact with the rubber snubbers is adding firmness to the feel of my MkI's front suspension. Unfortunately guessing at the condition of the road springs by comparing tire clearances, ride heights, etc, is usually inconclusive because of car to car variables like wheel and tire sizes.<br><br>So before disassembling anything I'd like to first do a quick "look see". To that end, can anyone share the intended clearance between the top of the stock rubber snubbers and their corresponding stop-pads on the cross-member for a (mostly) stock Tiger with known good springs? A related question is how much front wheel travel the Tiger design was intended to provide. 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