Thread: Front shock length for Rangie

Give me retained springs anyday.

There really is very little benefit to having spring relocaters other than the obvious bling factor of the extra down travel.

Unfortunately this same downtravel has two side effects:
a) uncontrolled weight transfer in certain situations when you don't want it; and
there is actually so little weight on the wheel anyway on full dislocated droop that any traction gained is bugger all..

But it does look cool. 8)


Edit: Oh yeah, and i forgot to mention the ****ing awful clunking sounds it makes....

I agree with Tuff the rear end does some strange **** somtimes and makes some funky noises, I am going to try and retain them soon and see how it affects it

Adam u finished yet?

LOL. I have not even started.

We had a tech day at my house today with the Disco2 club. We installed springs for a couple of people had a BBQ and checked out whether 265/75 tyres will fit on a stock D2.

I did go through the LRA kit. There are 2 dislocation cones but I thought theu went on the front not the rear...or are they meant for the rear?

Why do people have there dislocation cones on the top not the bottom?

I had mine on Aquarangie at the top and re-monted my spring retining plate to the top of the spring bracket. I made my own disllocation cones out of strip stell in a pyramid design, but only to stop them from falling out not for more down travel.

I do like the LRA kit, but I'm too poor to buy one. It's a bit pricey but you get what you pay for, it's been proven and it will pass an engeneers report which is a prioroty in out day and age.

My Rangie may now have huge amounts of travel (Koni shocks, LRA springs 180lb front, 220lb rears), but it works well within reason. It doesn't stop me from going anywhere and has almost as much as a bloke I know who has all the long travel shocks byut the rig hasn't been set-up properly IMO as far as the suspension goes.

This is an opinion and I'm no expert, but the current set-up works for me.

Good luck with the LRA kit

Originally posted by walker
LOL. I have not even started.

We had a tech day at my house today with the Disco2 club. We installed springs for a couple of people had a BBQ and checked out whether 265/75 tyres will fit on a stock D2.

I did go through the LRA kit. There are 2 dislocation cones but I thought theu went on the front not the rear...or are they meant for the rear?

yeah the relocators go on the back... the front dosnt need them as the spring has a shock going thru the centre of it and can't fall out

Mick

I am hanging out to see what the new suspension will be like. I just hope I have not gone too far. 8O

I had not even touched the suspension since I bought it 9 months ago and after pulling all the old stuff out I can see it was only the lockers which had been getting me through, the rear wheels must have been off the ground half the time.
The rear springs were 320lb but also the rear Bilstein shocks were way too short and only had about 30mm drop in them. Also I still have the boge strut connected which limits heaps of movement.

So now with 200lb springs on the back the Rangie should actually roll on corners the way a Rangie does. I just hope I don't do any damage from having too much articualtion in the rear due to the long shocks, LRA seemed to think I would.

U dont have time to post on the interwheb u should be out in the shed spinning some spanners

Originally posted by mickrangie
U dont have time to post on the interwheb u should be out in the shed spinning some spanners

Adam,

Start with the Boge Strut