Thread: Dicovery 1 front end a question or two

Hally, is it a vibration or shimmy through the steering wheel.

Shimmy
Cheers Hall

I've never had a problem with the 27mm wheel nuts. Love how so many of the big nuts on LR are 27 or 30. I think your tyres are probably bad. Try rotating rear to front.

Nah its not a tyre problem. Nothing to do with the alignment. The disco wheel nuts with the coating on them are known for swelling a bit and becoming a bigger size. You can pull the coating off and they become 26mm but then you have a hole in the middle of each one, which looks bad and introduces dirt. You can buy wheel nuts for them with no coating and no locking mechanism.

Other thing you can do is slightly oiling inside of your 27mm socket and tapping it on the nut with a block of wood and hammer.

Well a month and a bit later I got around to doing some thing about this problem. Life`s little issues do get in the way some times and when it is not a major problem unless you are doing 100k`s you tend to not worry to much. Rotated the wheels front to back. Problem 95% gone, so the tyres where it seems the main issue. But there is a hint still lurking. Shock absorbers and steering dampener look very very original. Might have to have a look at replacing them with a good set for more off road use.
Cheers Hall

Originally Posted by Hall

Well a month and a bit later I got around to doing some thing about this problem. Life`s little issues do get in the way some times and when it is not a major problem unless you are doing 100k`s you tend to not worry to much. Rotated the wheels front to back. Problem 95% gone, so the tyres where it seems the main issue. But there is a hint still lurking. Shock absorbers and steering dampener look very very original. Might have to have a look at replacing them with a good set for more off road use.
Cheers Hall

If they are original that has to be your problem, never had 19yo shocks that were any good.

The shocks and steering dampener are the ome black ones. So yeah I`m guessing there original, unless the first owner was pedantic about replacement parts. So now the decisions to agonise over. I already have set of 3" lift springs. Do I fit them and get longer shocks? Or do I just keep it simple and get standard shocks. Is 3" to much lift?
Cheers Hall

Originally Posted by Hall

The shocks and steering dampener are the ome black ones. So yeah I`m guessing there original, unless the first owner was pedantic about replacement parts. So now the decisions to agonise over. I already have set of 3" lift springs. Do I fit them and get longer shocks? Or do I just keep it simple and get standard shocks. Is 3" to much lift?
Cheers Hall

Go 2" and be happy, Regards frank.

Originally Posted by Hall

The shocks and steering dampener are the ome black ones. So yeah I`m guessing there original, unless the first owner was pedantic about replacement parts. So now the decisions to agonise over. I already have set of 3" lift springs. Do I fit them and get longer shocks? Or do I just keep it simple and get standard shocks. Is 3" to much lift?
Cheers Hall

2 inch seems to be a good lift without too much work.
3 inch will put a heap more stress on your car.
However as you asked, yes you could fit the 3 inch and use stock shockies however your travel would be limited. (shockies bottom out).
Best to replace shockies with longer travel ones to suit.

If you do decide you dont want those 3 inch springs then i will swap you for a set of 2 inch ones (king springs) if you like.