SHOW US YOUR FLEX !!!

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Originally Posted by PAT303

I'm asking JC because everywhere I go means corrigations or long highway runs and I don't want to make the mistakes I made on my Tdi on the Puma.It's soft all the way for me but I don't want car sickness rolly polly ride. Pat

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I'm hearing you, My spring choice is LRA orange fronts,(180psi), and standard 110 rears (330psi) with Decarbon shocks. on the RRC, it was basically the same but the rear was 320psi, and had longer coils with 2" longer shocks and no rear sway bar due to the long range tank.

I had a 3" body lift too, so all added up to some pretty uncomfortable cornering at times, was OK with the Gforce suspension hooked up, but took that off when I fitted the sals because the rollbar wouldn't fit. Had thoughts of engineering a new one but it didn't happen.

I have seen some serious corrugations with this set up on the Rangie, and with the tall tyres deflated to 30psi, and the decarbon shocks giving a great ride, I am happy to fit it all up to the county.

I'm sure I sound like I'm trying to tell you something you allready know, but I feel that damper choice will give you a great ride, and don't go too soft on the spring rates or risk overstroking and heating up the shocks.

JC

Like you as I'm getting older I feel the need for refinement not mucho stuff and I've decided to really spend the dollars on a good suspension set-up and better storage and fuel carrying ability. Pat

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Originally Posted by lambrover

johnR you need to dump the sway bar they limit you so much.

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I know :( But it handles awsome on the road and behaves itself nicely when heavily loaded even with roof rack. Safety is a concern with Wife and three little ones in the back.

The thought of some sort of sway bar disconect has apealed to me :angel:

But then again, twin lockers make up for it :o I know it's wrong to use them that way but heck if you still get up the hill and a bit safer :D

Maybe one day as an experiment but I'll have to check brake line and ABS sensors for length first. Till then Lock, Lock and drive :D

Cheers,

It's all good I was only being cheeky. My car is a bit floaty but I think my shocks are to blame for that and want to change them. At Christmas I fitted a sway bar, due to the long rang tank I have the brackets to lower the sway bar, but with the spring lift I have when the axle flexes to where mine can the sway bar links invert and turn up and get stuck and wont come back to normal rest position.

This could be an option for more flex:
X-eng High Performance Off-Road Engineering
Sav

Yes I have looked at that and it is definatley on the list just not sure when as it's not cheap and the freight would be hefty as well.

But love the idea. I'd be really keen to hear from someone that has installed one and what they think?

Cheers,

JC is probably not going to like this one to much considering the amount of work he has put in to the old rangie. But still a pretty cool pic.

(sorry wrong forum)

Been trying to sort out a solution to lifting wheels and the resultant reduced traction ... so last year I lashed out and got some X-Eng gear ... Friday was a quiet day, so why not get it fitted! Only issue was I needed to find local workshop who could make a 900mm brake line. After getting it all in and brakes bled ... now to test.
Had a club training day today so had a chance to try it out. Issues to resolve are really only that the passenger tyre just touches the inner guard when almost fully compressed, but not the drivers side. May need to consider wheels with different offset, or little narrower.
I was amazed at how much the vehicle improved in the rough, cross axle situations with the 4 wheels all pushing on the ground, with lockers disengaged, it still kept moving forward with minimum wheel spin.
Now to sort out the front!

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33" Simex JT2
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How do I get a bigger photo ?

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