Shock selection - temps.....

[weeds]

Which design works best on corrugations.....

I have reading a reports on the Canning Stock Route and how it's punishing on shocks......I see plenty resort to measuring the temperature of the shocks and having to stop regularly to let them cool

I ran billies on my old fender......but didn't really drive punishing tracks apart from a Simpson trip...

On the new fender it has terraferma on the rear and I assume OEM on the front...

[Iain_B]

I went with the massive Koni Raids on our Defender 110. We found they handled corrugations no problem without getting hot at all. We did the Anne Beadell in our Defender, fully loaded with 200lt fuel, 100lt of water, roof top tent, etc etc. . We have done the CSR in our Unimog, and the corrugations on the Anne Beadell were worse in my opinion, being a lot higher and solid as concrete, but then the Mog tyres are substantially bigger and do a great job at ironing out corrugations so it might be hard to compare properly. We slowed right down on both the Anne Beadell and CSR when the corrugations were bad, there are always some big holes and rocks on the track that will catch you out is your try and skim over the top and you will break something. We've done about 80,000km with them, and they still seems to work great. I've found them to be really good off road/dunes, a bit bouncier than the OEM shocks on the rear at high speed over the cattle grids, and a bit softer than the OEM ones which makes it wallow a bit more but you get used to it.


Our Unimog also has Koni Raids (much bigger ones), and I never measured anything above 65Deg C on the CSR. The corrugations are not the worst thing for the shocks on the CSR, there are long sections in the dunes with large bumps every 5-10 metres which give you almost full travel of the suspension every few seconds for hours. The Unimog shocks have 250mm of travel which means they push a more fluid around than the Defender ones. We only travelled at around 100-150km per day though, the CSR is not the Dakar, and its a very long way to get parts if you break something, and did regular temp check on shocks and drive line at each well.

[weeds]

Thanks.....another good reason for us to drop in and say g'day.

[Shoogs]

Another vote for Koni Raids, simple, big, easy to adjust and don't break.


cheers


Tim

[86mud]

My vote is for Koni Raids....you can have a look/drive of mine on Defender day out Weeds..

I had Bilsteins previously, but prefer the Koni's

[cripesamighty]

Dumb question. How hot is too hot for Bilsteins....

[Tombie]

Dumb question. How hot is too hot for Bilsteins....



I've had Billies hot enough to burn the paint on them.
They still ran fine.

[justinc]

Ive also had billies so hot the gaitors were dripping off them like mozzarella cheese. ..😮 and they still worked after they'd cooled!!

Jc

[cripesamighty]

Ok, I feel better now. I was probably a bit too cautious earlier this year when I was on the Tanami Rd and then the Cape Leveque Rd a bit later on. Both roads hadn't been graded in quite a while and the corrugations were quite bad. Always good to know I can just back off a little when I smell the paint burning off!

[PAT303]

The stock dampers on my TDCi have just done the White Cliff's,Anne Beadell,Connie Sue,Great Central loop,thats 138,000km's of outback travel all up and they are still going strong,they'll do me. Pat