Doors all sound proofed,actually way easy when cut up to fit spaces around door bracing ,nice clunk now.
As mentioned I feel this rangie has had a hard life previously and as such had a 30-40 mm droop to the drivers side ,I don’t have an end on photo to illustrate, but parked sideways on my sloping driveway she looked like she’d been drinking heavily
I’ve had a good look around and no obvious chassis hits,and rails look straight as,and although worn the body mounts are present and ok bar the drivers side rear which is bent down 15mm.
This didn’t really explain the massive chassis lean,although I truely think the whole frame has been laddered as mentioned fitting and shimming the doors earlier.
All keen,launched into restoring standard springs front and back.
As you know Land Rover uses paint splashes down each spring to denote the type and position,so had green splashed standards for the rear,blue for the fronts.
At the time of writing,there was no access to the shops for spring compressors,so did some diy,,you’ll laugh…
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A couple of the cheapest nastiest budget Rachet straps to create a primed Grenade,,haha ,this was more than slightly scary hammering into place lying under the wing!
Stepping back here ,I replaced two britpart HD yellow springs with the standard rears and she still had the leans,35mm,so purchased off eBay,some polytuff oz company 30mm poly spacers for Range Rover classics.
Fit the grenade on drivers side and remeasured,still down but not near as much,so onto fronts.
By this stage my spring compressors had arrived in the mail,much less tense
Would you believe,up front an original land rover set of police red/white stripes,these are a heavy duty lifted ‘rear’ springs..I’m starting to dislike Mr earlier owner,with his bash plates,full roll cage etc on a poor unsuspecting 40 year old two door…
No doubt it had three winches to drag him off the shear cliff he’d just rolled down hence the weight compensation up front.
As an aside the two yellow britpart shocks were 15mm different heights!
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Technique,
Loosen wheel nuts
Trolley jack car up under axle
chock opposite end tyres as scary movement otherwise..
Place jack stand under rear chassis.(tow hook mount is a good spot,as per photo)
Remove Wheel.
loosen and remove lock plate bolts at bottom of strut(wd40 and wire brush clagged bolt first)
release lower nut of rooted el rancho shock.
lower car onto jack stand using trolley jack
lower trolley jack further so axle is close to ground
(caution not to allow axle to hang from brake Pipe lines on front end)
Use cheap nasty rachet straps….nah joke,,,use HD quality spring compressors to lower spring out of seat)
Clean up area ,rust converter,satin black etc.
reverse procedure..
Fronts are a little more work having to remove the shock turret but all easy access on an early classic.
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And the result?
After all four corners and one kneecap into a wheel stud later ,the cars level
mind you the thing is stripped and no boge leveller installed yet..
Aplogies for picture quality,for some reason I have to edit quality down and make them portrait else they flip..
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