P38 Coil Suspension Conversion

I don't like making a habit of popping the air springs in mine, however fun it may be ;-)

I can see where gippslander is coming from - he's not saying no P38 owners take them out and make them work hard in low range, he's saying that there are probably more that don't! It's a status thing (and why not, I look back at pics of mine polished up and parked in a stylish city location under lights and perve), the small majority of us take them out and royally lift wheels and out class the tojo's and 'trolls on the tracks!

I recall watching glenhendry's vids on YouTube, and no offence to the patrol owner, but the P38 owned you!

Either way we all just love our P38's, sometimes!

Cheers
Keithy

That is the point we bought the most capable off road vehicle and i am proud of it i managed 9th in the recent Alpine challenge with a two inch lift and 33" tires out of forty vehicles the rest were comp trucks i am wraped we made it. Let alone got a place i was trying to stir some faith in the Range Rover that couldn't due to computers and too bloody sophisticated as compared with Comp NISSANS AND TOYMOTORS There was a shorty ninety driven by Andrew from HILINE Traralgon who manged a second i believe it had four hundred K"S on it at the start and it just went did amazing thing's i was more than happy with the Rangger she did it hard i have virtually no clear coat left but it never faulted. To do the Barclay river Jeep track after the fires is hell let alone the rest of the trip 350KM's and no letup was a trip of a lifetime the trip was well organized and fully catered i am in for next year but one of the other guys is driving his car so i will be either a passenger or a navigator. I believe the Range Rover P38 on a good day is the best off road vehicle to date without all the bull**** electronics that we see and pay for in the rest of the field.:D
Love my Rangger

I run a P38 on tracks all over Tassie, and am running the EAS system and since I replaced a of a faulty height sensor about 2 years ago it hasn't put a tyre wrong.;)
I replaced the airbags standard airbags with Gen 111 Arnotts about 18 months back to get the increased length and softer ride at full height. I have changed the height settings at off road height to gain approach and departure angle improvement but as Paulp38a says, the standard height is the one for best articulation. A set of Bighorn 265/75's makes it a very capable offroader.
For on road use it runs Toyo open country all terrains in 255/65 which are quiet and give better fuel economy. On a recent trip from Hobart to Smithton and return the fuel consumption was 13.2l/100k mostly sitting on 110k's.
I think I get the best of both worlds this way because on highway height with the firm ride that the Arnotts give at that height, the handling is excellent.
This vehicle has done 268000k's and is origional. But it is very well maintained.

I have been a long time advocate of keeping my p38 stock. I have loved the air suspension. The problem is that every 5 years or so i have to spend a couple of grand getting it back into order.
This weekend I went for a drive in my old stomping grounds in the latrobe valley and went places that would need a helicopter to recover the vehicle if it failed.
The Rr performed flawlessly is the bush but on the trip back to melbourne
Came up with an eas fault. I went back to the mechanic to reset the fault to find that there was a slow leak between the compressor and the air tank.
Given the fact that the car has done over 150,000 kms since the last major repair I think that this latest problem will be the tip of the iceburg.
So, coil springs are going in.
Unashamedly I will modify the Rr fit a winch for looks, never needed one before it what the heck.
I will let you all know how he conversion goes.
Cheers