Thread: Nose down

Im an idiot when it comes to working on cars, but I had no dramas getting my coils out of my TD5? They just fell out pretty much? It was well looked after and clean though.

Sagged




After new springs





Even with the standard shocks still in place it handled a lot better. Cornering was my dignified. Not like that drunken diagonal power walk face first into the gravel type feel.

Aaron, did you put in rears as we'll or just fronts, and what brand type did you opt for?

Nope, just fronts. They were landrover OE.

Don't think it bad been mentioned yet, but when you put them in, there are two different springs. One for the passenger side and one for drivers side. Get your parts guy to mark them cleary because they look the same to thebeye.

Mine sagged 20mm after new winch and bar.
LR recommended they replace only front springs with HD as per previous post.
Will do this before Xmas hopefully, I have some other higher priority things to do such as cargo barrier and reversing camera which are more safety issues for me.
Cheers

I to had a nose drop after a bar and winch was installed. Then when I put 255x85x16's on the tyres were about 20mm from the flare.

I bought new springs and shocks and had a local put them in for me, the ones I bought were Dobinsons, but the front ones they had sent me were way to high, I picked up the defender from the garage and knew I was going to have issues, driving home I could feel the vibration from the prop, as it was the weekend I had to rip them out myself and put the originals back in, I tried at first with rope, I read somewhere that you can compress them then tie rope around then they will come out easy, well that did not work for me, I sent the misses down to SC and she picked up a set of spring compressors for me, after that it took about 30min to get them out and the old ones back in, it was not a hard job but it was a pain in the ass.

I drove the car back down to the garage on the Monday and he stuck in a set of kings in the front, I think they are +2 which brought it back up nice and level, and they seem to be pretty good, if I did it again I would put in the LR HD ones, I still have the Dobinsons in the back and they seem ok but a bit hard when empty, if I ever get round to it I will be putting the LR ones back in with the Air Bags I bought at the same time.

Cheers
Pat

I don't know what you're doing wrong Pat, but springs on an LR are crazy easy to replace/swap.

- Jack car up, put chassis on stands
- remove wheels, while axle is supported by a jack
- unbolt shocks from the axle
- unbolt spring retainers
- lower the axle on the jack
- pull springs out
- put it back together
No need for spring compressors or any of that.

Will

Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

I don't know what you're doing wrong Pat, but springs on an LR are crazy easy to replace/swap.

- Jack car up, put chassis on stands
- remove wheels, while axle is supported by a jack
- unbolt shocks from the axle
- unbolt spring retainers
- lower the axle on the jack
- pull springs out
- put it back together
No need for spring compressors or any of that.

Will

It could have been that the springs were that big it made them tight but I seriously could not get them out. and had issues getting the originals back in, I would love to say I will give it another go but it wont be for a few years on the front I hope

Cheers