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Both of those pics look high in the front to me Daz (unless it's the angle of the photo?).
Reckon I'll stick with standard height springs front and rear. When fully loaded my 2014 Defender sits dead level on standard springs (as it should). Very happy with ride too on Koni Raids.
My Fronts might be down a touch with bullbar weight, but not enough to warrant HD fronts... those HD fronts seem to make 110's nose up.
cheers
Just realised I never wrote the end to this story.
I ended up installing a set of airbag helpers in the rear springs (High Pressure AirbagMan). This allowed me to bring the measurement from the bump stop back into spec. - and of course adjust it whatever the load.
The added benefit is the amount of adjustment I can get in the rear when leveling the car to sleep in the roof top tent. While its not the same as a full air setup, if a go 0psi in one side and 60psi in the other I can achieve about 100mm of difference. Means I can also do a little front to back adjustment too.
Really happy with ride (and look) no matter the weight in the back
Thanks everyone for your help
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Yes, that's good. I'm also happy with our Airbag Man rear airbags and run 10 psi all the time. It levels the vehicle, particularly when towing, and firms up the ride a bit in corners.Quote:
Originally Posted by davebudge
Bit of a thread resurrection, but reading back through this prompted me to do something about my saggy rear end.....
I've bought the Airbag Man HD helper bags with the sleeves, so has anyone who has fitted these (or the standard ones) got any hot tips on how to fit the plate that goes on top of the bags?
I've got the car on axle stands under the chassis rails and a jack under each end of the axle, lowered as far as they'll go.
The bags are in the coils, but for the life of me I can't squash them enough to feed the plate through the coil and up above the bag.
The height of the jacks is also stopping the axle from going low enough to get the top of the coil from coming out of its seat, so I can't slip the plate over the top of the coil (and I suspect I'll hit the end of travel of the shock before that happens anyway).
The instructions for fitting the plate simply says 'fit from underneath' which isn't particularly helpful and the only video I've managed to find on yootube is a sped up fitment to a 90 and this bit of the fitting is over in less than half a second and doesn't really give any clues.
Short of getting some coil spring compressors, any suggestions?
Cheers!
have you searched the thread Dan, I'm getting a bit of a deja vu feeling here. I'm sure someone addressed this previously.
Yeah I thought the same, but can't find the info. There's nothing in this thread though.
I'll keep looking!
Cheers.
Maybe ring Airbag Man for hints?
Sounds like you need to raise the chassis, disconnect the shock than you should be able to drop the spring lower.
Yeah, I'm thinking this way too.Quote:
Originally Posted by W&KO
I was just hoping there was some trick I was missing that would mean I didn't need to faff around rejigging the axle stands!!