Thread: Suspension - Bilsteins 7100

It's easy to see why the bush flogs out when it's only 0.35mm wall to space the bolt out. But why not just use a half inch bolt? drilling out the other parts wouldn't be too hard.

Originally Posted by clubagreenie

It's easy to see why the bush flogs out when it's only 0.35mm wall to space the bolt out. But why not just use a half inch bolt? drilling out the other parts wouldn't be too hard.

The top mount has a fixed nut that would need tapping...

Haven't flogged them on the D2 here - they are static - once torqued up they can't move so shouldn't be wearing at all - like a shim.
Sounds like the joints seized and tore it apart...

Well the Prothane bushes are in.



Happy Days

Let's hope they are better than the Flo Flex watts bushes. Haha.

Will

Follow the Sapper.

Originally Posted by Will Wallace

Let's hope they are better than the Flo Flex watts bushes. Haha.

Will

Follow the Sapper.

HaHa. Thanks mate.

These are pretty well tested in the US so I don't think I'll have the same problems as I did with the Flo-Flex.

Happy Days

Interesting developments....

Mine are still sitting in the box in the garage, time is not acting in my favour currently!

Can't wait to get them in.

Be sure to report back on the Prothane Bushes Joel. My D2 will probably hit 300k before I get round to fitting mine! (currently at 222k, with 24k of that being in the last ~5 months).

Cheers
Will

Anyone thought about going down this route???

Bilstein shocks and struts for cars and trucks - Shockwarehouse.com

these are designed for the 5100 series shock, but in addition to those Prothane Bushings, could be made to work?

I have ordered my 7100's yesterday, and E-Shocks are out of the Prothane Bushes, I think, when they arrive, I will look at extracating the X-Bar from the OEM shocks in the front, and seeing if they can be shoe-horned into the Prothane Bushes. Therefore, eliminating the need for the RTE lower mounts, and, only needing a slightly longer shock tower to fit them.

Alternatively,

something like this would go nicely with my JKS Quick Disconnects:

Front Lower Bar Pin Adapter | Cherokee XJ & Comanche MJ

Originally Posted by joel0407

With the adapter plates on the bottom of the front shocks, they are too long in their closes length so you need to extend the bump stops to prevent the shock bottoming out and being destroyed.

The other and better fix IMHO is to fit taller shock towers. So I bought these:



Problem is the port for the external reservoir wont fit. Also the shock wont fit though the tower so the external reservoir needs to be disconnected which then means they need to be regassed. This is how I modified the tower for the port. They are plenty stronger than the standard so it shouldn't be a problem.

Nice towers. Where did you find them and how much were they?


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