Originally Posted by wstar

You could stand to be a little less abrasive about the situation. I'm not sure what's going on with your situation, but even the first batch of Stillen CBE's (which I have), which lots of people had issues with clearing the crossmember, didn't seem as bad as you're describing this, and it's been quite a while since forum members here started reporting a higher success rate due to the design changes. Lots of them have gone in fine in the past couple of months, haven't really seen any fitment issues reported lately until yours.

Maybe try loosening the slip-joints a lot and freeing them up with a mallet to make sure they slip well when you jack it back up into place to retorque again, that would be my next guess. In order to raise the center further than the last place you torqued it too, the slipjoints would have to go "shorter", which if they made any impression on the underlying pipe means they need to slip over the bump of that impression to adjust now.