Westcott Designs Preload Collar Lift Kit on SR5 - transfer factory rubber piece?

[Kyle_Williams91]

Question: On the factory SR5 front struts there is a rubber piece on the lower spring perch, am I transferring the rubber piece to the preload collar?

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[828findadventure]

Does this help?

 

[Kyle_Williams91]

Does this help?

I sent this video to my mechanic and it doesn’t mention the piece I’m referring to so we figured it needed to be transferred over.

 

[Climbandroll]

I installed this myself and wondered the same. In the vids they did not keep it or mention it but I still wondered whether it would even fit. It did not. It conforms/fits to the OEM steel spring perch and has one or two rubber tabs/nubs that seat into a depression or hole in the steel. Those bits prevent the rubber from form fitting to the Westcott collar/perch. Even if your shaved them off the rubber is not shaped in a way that I could see it fitting against the WD collar. I messed with it long enough to be fairly certain.

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