Defender 130 Rear Spring Problem

That'll work fine.
The stock dampers are too short when unladen, there's minimal droop travel, less than 1".

That's fine on a race car where most all open wheelers are run with zero droop in the front, and often in the rear, too, but not great in a road/offroad vehicle

I have aftermarket dampers and had the springs pop out. Easy to pop them back in.
I use 2 fencing wire twitches at the top mount. No more problems.
Terry

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Originally Posted by Mickman

OK so you guys are suggesting that I remove the inner spring to help with ride - not required for my light usage, and also to add some type of retainer? My local mechanic has just fitted new shocks all round, wish I was aware of this at the time. He advised to go with EFS.

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My EFS shocks did the same thing, I checked they were the right shocks and they were, changed to Bilstein with no issues..

Just adding another vote for adding rear Airbag Man airbags, in my case to standard coils and shocks. The adjustability for towing is excellent.

Springs are sooo old school……..bag the rear [emoji6]

Next time round I'll look at Bilstein and a pair of bags.

I have a second hand set of Air Bag Man air bags for sale with covers, Possibly 4 years old , and had done maybe 20000 Kms.

Ian
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