Thread: EAS Shocks

I'm thinking soften up the bags with the reservoirs extra volume and let the shocks and sway bars take care of the handling.
I run 180lb/in springs in my other classic with no sway bars and I can push that through corners fine. John (Bush65) has run a set of calcs on firestone airbags which suggest they run around 400 lb/in equivalent at his intended on-road height. You'd have to re-run the calcs for the stock bags to be sure, but I'd expect they are closer to 400 lb/in than 200.

If we can get ~250 lb/in at road height, ~200lb/in at std height and ~150 lb/in equivalent at full height I'd be very happy.

For your switch in/out idea, simply plumb the tank in on a T with it's own valve. Even a slow acting electric ball valve would do the job.

Originally Posted by pibby

dougal - i took some photos of the shocks off my soft dash lse when i was putting new ones on. i tried and tried to get some definitive answers at the time but just got lots of 'she'll be right' so thought i would take some photos to post on here. did read of reports that don't work well putting coil shocks in the air shock location, people recommend putting the turrets in. but i haven't looked into since.

i took off the original front shocks for air and replaced them with some boge for coils. the photos will confirm what donrover0 was saying. i reinstalled in the shock location for air. (i'm still in limbo land, want to get air going again one day but didn't want to bastardise the car. well, assuming i keep it, life's what happens whilst you make plans). found i had to shuffle some rubbers around to get to fit.

did the same on rear. quite unimpressed with the ride at this stage but only go round the block every other weekend.

the photos show one end lined up and then shows the other end displaying how much shorter the coil shocks are.

brett.

Thanks for the info Brett.
So the ride that you are unimpressed with is relocated coil shocks and coil springs?
I have lancruiser 80 series front shocks currently that are probably similar length/stroke to the EAS versions, but they are heavier again in compression and rebound damping.

I have never found a front suspension combination that I'm 100% happy with. Originally I had "rally spec" konis on the coil sprung RRC and they rode as expected. I have stock NRC numbered front shocks and they feel just like the rally spec konis (i.e. hard).
I fitted some free diesel disco 1 front shocks to try them, but one was blown.
The landcruiser koni's are the best yet, but they are tuned with more compression and rebound damping than I need.

The 93 with EAS and stock shocks is also harder than I'd like in the front at road speed. Mainly I think due to the increasing spring rate of air-bags running at low height.