Thread: So there's actually nothing wrong with this?

As jc said.

Rubber is the most incompressible of common materials known to man. It is flexible, but practically incompressible, so to flex there must be some space for the deformed rubber to go.

The convex side of the washer provides some space for the rubber to deflect.

The cups that were added with the disco confine the rubber and result in bending in the rod of the shockie, sometimes breaking the top eye from the rod. Their only benefit I can see for the cups is reducing noise or wearing the hole if worn/flogged rubbers are not replaced.

The nut and washer used at the top mount is another source of the same problem - early rangies had a better arrangement.

Originally Posted by justinc

They're supposed to be that way Derek, the rubber bushes are conical too, and if fitted the wrong way up won't work at all

The same is true with D1 from 1994 update.

When I fit the bilstein or DeCarbon shocks, I remove the steel 'tubes' and revert back to 'normal' shock rubber and washer orientation.

JC

thats what I thought that it looked right.....

I was starting to think **** all my cars are wrong

just to explain its mango madness season up here at the moment,we find fault in everything

Originally Posted by lewy

just to explain its mango madness season up here at the moment,*we find fault in everything

You said it!

Hi Derek,

To me (with no automotive suspension design training), the way the washer is fitted looks like that's how it's meant to me.

I would expect that the washer "cup" to be the other way around only if there's like half an inch of rubber protruding from the metal.... and I certainly don't see that on the Puma's design.

I wouldn't want any part of that cupped washer to be in contact with another metallic surface, which I think would happen as soon as there's any flex on the axles.

So looks like LR got it right!