Thread: What the ???

Bilstiens are GOOD, I believe that you can buy dislocation cones that will stop your springs going Walkabout, Regards Frank.

Gaz,
Welcome home!
Ive got some rear dampers in the shed you can use till you buy new.
Worn but still with some life - I keep em as spares and generally chuck a rear in the tray when we go long. You can drive for ages on a dead front with not too much hassle but lose a rear and it slows you down.

When you say pulled the bottom pin out
I have had them snap pins on me before but only when the bushes bind and nut is too tight. Particularly bad with polyurethane bushes if they are over tightened.
But if it pulled out of the fusion well I guess thats a material failure.

On my old disco I ran limiting straps from the inside of the chassis rail bolted to the damper bracket down to the trailing arm bolt. Keeps the springs in place without loading up the damper.

S

Thanks RR, will see you about borrowing your spares till I get back down to Cairns to buy new.
Yes it was material failure, the shocks are EFS Elite brand and are only mounted with rubbers not urethane bushes, so why the failure I cannot guess but the bottom pin is pulled right out of the bottom tube at the "Flahbutt" weld area, it left a hole about 12 mm in dia, (a rather large oil leak).
Maybe I should go a little easier on the old Disco in the hard stuff, my mate who came with us in the Tojo ute reckons I'm mad, he was using diff locks to go places we got pretty easily.
Of most concern is the spring retention issue, will follow up on cones as suggested by Tank or maybe your straps idea will work for us.

It's pretty rare for shocks to do this, although I have had one break off a top eye, but that was my fault as I didn't see the tapered washer on the chassis side and put in two.
I also saw a Billy unscrew a top eye when they had screwed on top eyes. This ignores the Rancho which regeularly tears out top eyes.

IMHO if you want ot be paranoid, a good solution is to do what they do on old Series, and attach a Nylon strap from the axle to the chassis.

BUT buy good quality shocks and it will not happen eg Bilstien, Koni, even OME ( not the maker) , or Monroe. Anything with the MAKER's name not a marketing company name.
Regard s Philip A

Does anybody know where one might purchase these D1 rear spring "dislocation cones" off the shelf ?
I know we have a couple of 4x4 shops in Cairns, I think TJM, and ARB maybe and a couple of Landie parts chaps, but are they the type of thing that is vehicle specific or are they a universal type, perhaps the 'net, I cannot recall ever seeing such a thing, but then again I don't get out much!

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Gary