Thread: my thoughts on Old Man Emu Suspension

Thanks LowRager
What did you do in the spring department?
+2" ?
with or without dislocaters (front / rear) ?

Frank

I am waiting on some new springs to arrive.I am going to try some +2" flexi springs,similar to what Sam def-90 has in his,except mine will be made to suit my 110.My rear springs will be retained at the bottom,but have Gwyn Lewis spring retainer/cones for the top.And the fronts have the cones built in to the raised shock towers.Will try and get some pics of the assembled parts,and then when the springs turn up,will post some pics of everything installed.

Pete,

Have you taken into account the additional length of the shock pin to eye adapters in the 7100 measurements? (i.e. adding approximately 20mm to open and closed lengths for each pin to eye adapter you have to use on the shock).

Or are they all pin-to-pin / pin-to-eye (front/rear) measurements?

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

These may be useful to somone here. compares OME LTR's with the N73/74 and various Bilstein shocks. first image is rear. second is front.

ETA to give some actual tech to the below images my springs are an exact 2" lift and the measurements were done based on that. Compression limit is spot on as it rubs the top layer of paint of the wheel arch lip when on the big tyres (35x13.5) with the arches off.

Originally Posted by Offender90

Pete,

Have you taken into account the additional length of the shock pin to eye adapters in the 7100 measurements? (i.e. adding approximately 20mm to open and closed lengths for each pin to eye adapter you have to use on the shock).

Or are they all pin-to-pin / pin-to-eye (front/rear) measurements?

Hey Bojan,

Good point. No I didn't. They would be done on the measurements supplied by Bilstein. Ie I would assume centre of Eye or middle of pin.

Rgds
Pete

Yes,according to Bilstein,7100 series shocks are all eye/eye connections

Originally Posted by Psimpson7

To add to lowrangers post I find the performance of my LTR's to be excellent. I also suffer limited down travel, but that isnt the fault of the dampers engineering as such, more a poor choice of damper for max wheel travel.

My dislike for them is the travel not the ride quality, I believe it is bad engineering from the manufacture to build a shock with such limited travel, so to get the better travel you have to revert to fitting cruiser shocks or the likes, I surpose they could have put abit more effort into getting the lenghts correct.

They probably fit another vehicle with less articulation perfectly.And because it is only a Land Rover they have thrown it together in a kit to suitAfterall,there aren't a lot of companies in Australia that make parts purely designed for Land Rovers.Hence why I went to the UK to source the bits for my suspension.

Originally Posted by LowRanger

Afterall,there aren't a lot of companies in Australia that make parts purely designed for Land Rovers.Hence why I went to the UK to source the bits for my suspension.

Funny that
Grass is always greenr on the other side


When i was living in the UK, the Uk surpension companies were pretty much seen as rubbish compaired to the Australia companies ( and i am not just talking about Scrap Iron as we all knew their surpension was really rubbish). Anyone that was anyone had Aus surpension on their trucks and i am talking tourers , winch challenge trucks , and racer. So alround