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New Disco - tyres and stuff?
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: "Spooky" ---Is it just me, or is there an awful lot of people on here who come from the Northampton area??? :?
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Sounds good to me as hopefully I will be buying my first house this side of summer and looking to move to aroung Rugby / Daventry way so will be close to loads of members! :D
muddyjames:
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But before i do, i think i best start getting it a bit more capable, so before i rush out and get a lift kit, snorkel etc. I think i am going to start with tyres.
Andy
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wont the tyres from your 90 fit the disco? If they would cant you pop down to your loacal tyre place and aks them to swap all the tyres from the disco to the 90 and vice versa? Surely that would be the cheapest option?
muddyjames:
when you do get a snorkel go to paddocks as they are doing a Safari snorkel for £144 +vat at the moment which is the cheapest I have found. If you have ABS you will need a slightly different snorkel for some reason but it is still the same price.
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: "muddyjames" ---when you do get a snorkel go to paddocks as they are doing a Safari snorkel for £144 +vat at the moment which is the cheapest I have found. If you have ABS you will need a slightly different snorkel for some reason but it is still the same price.
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I will also be watching this topic closely as I am just starting to tweak my disco. I cut the bumper the other day. It was easy and should give me better approach angle. It looks smart. I would put photos on my member page but cant remember / work out how to do it!
Budgie:
--- Quote from: "landyloony" ---as Pux said go for 2" lifft but I would say go with decarbon shocks rather than the pro-comp
I know a few people who are either garage mechanics or build custome land rovers for off road and they all say your best of with the decarbons as they last longer and you get a garentee (I think its a 5 years) where as pro-comp seem to onle last a couple of year max(or so I'm told)
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With the ProComp shocks you get a Life Time warrenty, for the time you own the vehicle and keep your recept that is! :wink:
I have 6 Procomp ES9000's on the Disco, had 4 on my Rangie and 4 on my 90 and only ever had one fail, which Explorer UK replaced.
A mate had two new DeCarbons go soft on him, they were replaced free of charge and were fine after that and the DeCarbons I had on the Disco before the ES9000's were also fine, so it can happen to any of them. :wink:
--- Quote from: "bombx3" ---whats a breather kit
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A standard Land Rover will have breather hoses/tubes on the front & rear axles, gearbox & transfer box. They allow the these parts of the drivetrain to "breath" if submerged in cold water.
When a nice hot axle is dumped into cold water the air inside will quickly contract, leaving a small vacuum. The breather is there to allow clean air to replace the vacuum but, if the breather is blocked, then it will tend to replace the air with whatever else is around, normally the muddy water through a weak seal - which is bad for the diffs, gear etc.
The breather kits either replace or lengthen the standard tubes so they can be taken higher up the vehicle, normally up the side of a snorkle, for deep wading.
There, hope that helps. :D
BigA, make a plan of what you want to do in the future.
There's no point wasting your money on tyres that fit the Disco now, only to find they look too small/narrow once the lift has been fitted! :wink:
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