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Liftting a landy. what do I need?

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Thrasher:
Damo,

235/70 is the same rolling radius as the 205's .... hence LR shipped ES's with these wider tyres. Not sure why you had to trim your valence as the ES came with an ever bigger one!?!?!

Or are you saying you have 235/85 tyres? If so I'd assume you will have had to trim your rear ;-)

muddyjames:

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With regards to the claws however - BEFORE you tow, find a nice bit of *wide* road and brake hard - then imagine this uncontrolable feeling with a van on the back..... ;-)
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I have tried this and the disco goes to the right big time. I towed a 2750kg box trailer over xmas but admitedly it was only loaded to about half that weight and even less to and from site but in the ice and snow it was ok but I was on road tyres then.


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If your's is a diesel make sure you SEAL THE HOLE in the bottom of the airbox...sometimes the instructions don't point that one out! Having a snorkel and not doing this is about the same as using a chocolate fireguard ;-)
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I am sure Matt_h will know about that hole but thanks for pointing it out to me.

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: "drmike" ---It seems to me you'd have to work hard to drown a Disco, the intake on a 620 might be only a few inches above the ground and they are not designed to have water anywhere near the bonnet! I think you'll find Discos are hartdier beasts.

Mike
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I know the 620 isnt designed to go swimming but it did to my peril.

I have seen the water over the bonnet extremely briefly once on the disco but I dont want to see how deep it will take to kill a disco. Matt and I saw a disco, well I fond it doing my postie round and that died and it had gone swimming to about 3 or 4 ft of water. I think it was 4 . Matt posted a topic on here with photos. I will try and find the link. So I know 4 ft is going into disco killing teratory!

muddyjames:

--- Quote from: "Damo" ---
Putting the 235's on mine, did mean I had to trim the bumper and remove the lower valance on the front, must adjust my steering stop on left lock (whilst I remember)

Towing the trailer, folding camper and the caravan has presented no problems so I dont really want to play with the ride height any further and introduce problems.
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I have 235's on mine and just trimmed my bumper as well as the tyre just caught on the bottom of the bumper and so I trimmed it and it still just catches so I am going to pull the bumper out straight by half an inch but I still dont see it giving as much space as the off side front wheel. We shall see.

I dont want to play with my ride height for towing my van as it isnt a easy van to please with loading. If it isnt just so it throws its teddy out its pram and snakes everywhere. When I first picked the van up it snaked at 45mph and that was the van empty but luckily I had wheel clamps etc in the car and put them in the front locker and it was spot on until I put all my personal stuff in then it was a matter or fine tuning the weight again.

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