Thread: 130 rear springs.

Hi all, coming home last night I hit the end of one of the local bridges which has a sharpish incline and bottomed out badly on the rear suspension. This was while travelling at the normal speed, so I clearly used up all the available travel and then some. I was only carrying four sheets of ply, so there was negligable load. Definitely need to improve the travel , in the short term , until I can get the air springs thing happening. One of the threads on air springs mentions engineering certification. Is this essential? Bump stop clearance seems to be about 80mm, Rick. Otherwise, ride comfort was quite acceptable. Cheers, Ross.

They must be reasonably soft Ross, I'm just kissing my bumps stops but not really feeling it with the standard 110 rear springs.

Hi Rick, the previous owner of the springs replaced them because they were sagging so I imagine they are really past their use by date. they will do as an interim measure although I may re-install the centre coils as an experiment . Cheers, Ross.

Hi all, after a few days away , I managed to get back on to the rear suspension this afternoon. I have now re-installed the original inner coil springs into the older coils I was given. It was worth the effort as the ride height has improved significantly without too much loss of ride comfort. I took it for a test run this evening and had no situation where the tyres touched the underside of the tray. I have had the metal parts made to adapt the air springs to the 130 axle plate and upper spring mount, using the detailed drawings supplied by TimNZ in his thread on installing rear air springs. There is a fabrication business reasonably close that has a CNC plasma cutter. The next step is to order the air springs. Cheers, Ross.

Hi all. air springs ordered tonight. We shall see how long it takes to receive the springs. Cheers, Ross.

HI all, the airsprings arrived yesterday. Now to assemble all the necessary parts. I need two Schrader valves and some means of mounting them as well as some way of adapting the valves to the 10mm ID air line I have on hand. I have fittings to connect the airline to the threaded fitting on the airspring. Any suggestions as to where to go for the valves and adaptor fittings would be welcome. [ Newcastle/ Maitland area] . The local car parts places are not able to help. Thanks in advance. Cheers, Ross.