Thread: How far can you drive on bumpstops?

The other option for the drive home is lower the rear tire pressures down to some pressure that you dare. I had to do that when it wouldn't repump (over heated pump) on the drive home from picking up the new air bag.

The correct approach is once it goes down once, its never going to get better - fix it then! Next time, I will take my own advice, and I have a spare new bag already sitting in the garage

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I carry a spare bag whenever I go further than 50km or so from town. My compressor is completely aftermarket and also provides air for tyre inflation, the valves for up and down are aftermarket and I carry a tyre pump should I need to inflat anything manually. I think I'm as reliably as someone carrying a spare coil spring.

Happy Days.

Dunno about Discos but I've driven from Coffs Harbour to Penrith (550km) in my P38A with it on the bumpstops. A lot of the time I was able to sit at 100km/h. That was starting at 11pm with little traffic so the occasional 55km/h slow bits didn't affect too many people. I called a few truckies on the CB and told them what had happened and that I'd get out of their way asap. They were fine with it as many of them have air suspension, too.

Over Easter, I had to drive back from River Island on the bumpstops. Only about 20km was on corrugated gravel road. The remaining 130km was on bitumen but not always good! Again, on the motorway I was often up to 110km/h.

My son popped a rear bag over Queens birthday weekend in his P38. He removed the bag and put a block of wood in its place. He then had two hours of bush and two hours of black top to get it home. One of his passengers reckon it still gave a better ride than an 80 series cruiser with coils that was in their group.

P38 , damm that's a ballsy effort 550k !!! I'm a humbled by you P38 guys, going where most men fear to tread. How were the bump stops when you got home?
Dave you son is to be commended for lateral thinking , was he able to use some fencing wire or duct tape in the improvisation as well? ( should listen to his dad and carry a spare bag )

Hi my d2 popped a bag an squat onto the bumpstops whilst i was off road cross axled on extended setting luckily i had not long since fitted them after one of air bags popped back end of last year and the pair on d2 was fitted mid 2010 and when i did a bit of research in life expectancy LR recommend swap out around 4 years in which time the vehicle had covered 100k miles or 160k km and when i sat on bumps i had a 2 tonne twin axle trailer on loaded and i drove ok just took it steady it helped with trailer raising bk just of bumps

Top effort Ron. Just driving 5 kms was enough for me. Smokey looked like something from pimp my ride..nose up high, rear down low, so much so that there was only millimetres between muddies and inner arch. Plus it was lopsided as other side only came down a bit. Every bump it felt like a bunny hop, I just wanted to put a hoody on and get out of the car as quickly as possible ;-).

Anyway Smokey goes in tomorrow so thankfully even though she drops overnight.....up she goes every morning ( Im sure theres a pun in there somewhere).

Regards

Stevo


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Quick update...Smokey is back to normal. Also needed bushes done in the rear thingy area to do with articulation etc watts link? So firmer ride and no clunking noise. Back in love again

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