Thread: My New Suspension

Looks like the system works well, you'll have to keep us posted on how well it works on the trail :wink:

And how does it affect the ride / stability of the vehicle on-road ?

What'$ the damage dollar$ wi$e ?

Dollars I can't really say as yet but as for stability on road, it is as good as ever.
When i had it done i had 1 1/2" higher coils fitted, but i also had quick release pins fitted on the sway bars. So when it is all hooked up it peforms as any other defender, but when offroad let the sway bars out & let the springs dislocate & do what ever it is they need to do under there.
We went on a bit of a night run last night but no pics to show & the video footage is to dark to bother working out how to put it up here. But lets say I am very impressed with what I have seen so far.
Hopefully there will be pics after the weekend, if she lets me out to play. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Hey mate..

Can you snap some piccys of your rear arms...??

Are they build from sctratc? Longger?

or just bent/rienforced standard arms?

Dave [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]

Gidget, given that you have a 130 (you got sway bars) I was wondering whether the suspension set up your mate made would have any adverse or (even dangerous ?) effect on-road for a 110, unhampered by such on-road civilities and unrestricted by them off-road.

I am not a mechanical wiz so excuse my dumbness, are the torsion bars you speak of the same as sway bars? If so as far as I can see it would be fine. As i am usually to lazy to get under mine & hook them back up(even though it is very easy now with the quick release pins). They make a difference to my truck only when it is loaded, so day to day around town you wouldn't notice if they were in or out.

Ooops - typographical error due to brain numbness, sorry.
I did actually mean sway bars, not torsion bars.
So rather than look too stupic I have edited my last post, so now you look like the silly one [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Thanks for the answer though.

On the subject of torsion bars I understand these are different :?: I'm as unknowledgebale as you in this department :!:

Perhaps someone more enlightened can explain this to us.

Gidget I like the suspension setup, but what I love the best is your centre console setup, very nice indeed, ashame I don't have that much room in the disco...