Thread: Disco ute

me to X2^^^^?

dont remember seing anything like that on the little bro's 130 either?

cheers phil

130's i'd seen were joined in the middle with a vertical weld and a plate about 2foot long top and bottom, it looks pretty ordinary

Every 130 has a join in the Chassis, they all come out or LR Special vehicles.
130 are custom so to speak...

Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i have a LR expert telling me this and ive looked under many a 130.

This might be a silly question but has anybody made a dual cab out of a disco?

Originally Posted by 4x4x2

This might be a silly question but has anybody made a dual cab out of a disco?

mmm, i want one of these !

130 dual cab disco, still haven't seen any pics of someone doing one, would have to be one good looking tray!!

Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking about what to do with the suspension on the disco.

So far I've worked out that I want a 2" lift, as the ute will mainly be used for touring.

At this stage I am thinking about putting air springs in the rear. My thoughts for this are that some times the ute will only have an empty tray on the back ( no weight), and other times it will be fully loaded for long distance touring (lots of weight).

If I use Coils then the ride will be very hard or very soft depending on how much weight it is carrying.

However if I use air springs then the spring rate will remain consistent (somewhat) no matter what load conditions they are under, as will the lift.

I spoke to a couple of land rover wreckers in melb this week and they suggested that if it hasn't got air springs already don't do it, its to much work..... Yeah right, cant be any were near as hard as some of the things I've already done to it.

My understanding (correct me if I'm wrong) is that there is 3 main components to air susp. 1 air spring 2 compressor 3 valving (incl height control), were the hight control opens the valve after a set time (about 10s in trucks)

From what I can tell most of the wiring is already in place, plugs and wiring for height control switches, plugs and wiring for push button in dash etc etc. Being electronic height control i presume that there is an ecu that plugs in some where for the delays and over rides etc. So the conversion should be somewhat straight forward.

I'm still waying up the pro's and con's but if anyone give me some valid reasons why I shouldn't go down this path it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Tim

A much easier way would be to put air bags inside your springs. You can have it set up for light weight with the springs then just add air when loaded for a trip. Not as easy to adjust but how often do you carry heavy loads. Low tech and cheap. Well that's what I'm doing but my brain functions at low tech.

Try these guys Light Vehicle

what i did was similar to the LR OE but not automated

i had coil bags with 2 LPG lock off switches one to let air in and one to let air out with an in cab switch and gauge. Wasn't automated but it was all in cab and a press of a switch. I had the air comp all hooked in also. So when i had weight in the rear i would flick the switch and let air in to the bags until i was happy with ride height and everything was level.

Parts
2x lock off switches
6mm or plastic tube 10 mtrs to be safe
push lock connectors
set of coil bags
psi guage
few relays and some wire
few hours in the shed

I am going to set this back up with the alloy tray due to the huge difference in load carrying coil v's nothing in the back coils

Also if you are going to buy coil bags you can get the Firestone ones direct from the US much cheap so shop around and then you might want the 2" lift bags or you can buy the rubber spaces from polyair

HTH
Mick