Thread: Different angle on a rear shock mount

one more pic of the back/chassis side

Serg

That looks trick
Can never be an overkill when it comes to suspension components!!

TIM.

Looks good to me,when are you going into production!!. Pat

With that much steel, call it a traction aid.

Looks like it'll work fine. Presuming you've checked full articulation clearances already.

Originally Posted by Dougal

With that much steel, call it a traction aid.

Looks like it'll work fine. Presuming you've checked full articulation clearances already.

We will see I think they will be fine the shock is pretty much taking the same path as stock.....only its a touch more vertical when viewed from the rear of the car....ie the shock is a little further out off the chassis. It wouldnt be much different to a D2 as I scaled some pics etc. I think the tyre would rub the spring perch first

Originally Posted by PAT303

Looks good to me,when are you going into production!!. Pat

not likely way to slooooooow

Good job Serg.Many years ago after I had fitted standard Range Rover rear suspension to my SWB series 2, I spent a whole day painstakingly cycling the rear suspension with the aid of a gantry and chain hoist,each time slightly changing pin mount position to determin the optimum top damper mounting angle in order to increase the life of the Koni units I used from little more than 6 months(due to piston shaft flex) to a couple of years of frequent challenging cross country use. I ended up with a mounting location and compound angle that is unfortunately very difficult to describe clearly, but to give a rough example, if you parked the truck a metre away from and parrallel to a wall and projected an imaginary centre line out from the top pin it would intersect the wall at approx mid wheelbase and 1.5 metres off the ground.The pin was welded to the actual spring mounting approx 120mm outboard of the chassis rail and 120mm forward of spring centre.The bottom mounts were std L/Rover 110 (both forward) I built 2 sets of these together with bolt on coil suspension conversion kits, but one ended up on another 2a swb and the other a series 1 swb that were shipped to the island of Nauru.Sadly I didn't make drawings or take any photos of the damper mounting.
wagoo.

Thanks Wagoo,

I seem to recall you telling me it was close to the D2 angle/set-up. Looking at my pics do you think I got the mounting angle close to what you decribe?

cheers,
Serg