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Suspension Woes!

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bullfrog:
235s are what LR should have fitted from day one.
I would suggest Old Man Emu (OME) as they ride like an oil shock yet are gas so should give you the offroad performance you are after yet give you the road manners as well.
The are a little pricey at aprx double that of Pro-comp. Dont rate decarbon as finish is poor on ones I have seen.
Really dont rate pro-comps due to build quality.
Try LLAMM4x4 as he (David) sells Rough-country shocks . I really rate these. Tell him I told you and you may get a deal.
Check my site for specs etc. :arrow:  :arrow:

Range Rover Blues:
See if you can borrow some 205s before you go and buy them (I had some 'till last week :roll: ).

Went out in my sister's new TDi last night and I was reminded just how nicley an air sprung car can drive.  It's a TDi and the extra weight may have something to do with it but it's on EAS, lowered 1 inch (so it tows well) 235/70 General Ameri and what look like Billies (they are yellow).  Little or no steering kickback even at 100,000miles.  It drives as well as any of my coilers and has less kickback than Julie's TDi.

So it is possible for an EAS car to drive nicley, it's as close as I've seen to the magic carpet ride I was lead to expect from air.


Before you go chucking money at it, check things like the steering preload and front tracking, both made small imrovements to mine.  Like you I think the biggest problem I have is the quality of the roads, there is one in particular between here and the caravn yard that is so bad I used to go along the motorway to avoid it, now I've got the car well under control but I find that just makes me drive faster.

If you were closer I'd say pop over, then we could put things in perspective (and I could lend you some parts).

enak:
Thanks for the offer!

I swapped the rear suspension bushes out last night (deflex) to the bilstein rubbers... feel much better!  Its not floaty, but I've still got the front radius arm bushes to change over.

Range Rover Blues:
The rad arm bushes make a lot of difference, I'm still not sure whether to put rubber back into mine, at the moment I've still got all the things I've suggested you get rid of, big tyres and Deflex bushes but these tyres have made a difference as have the Pro-Comp, wghich I think are softening nicley now they have been on for 6 months.

enak:
Well I'm gonna push this back till after I get the transfer box changed.

Once I've got the radius arm bushes changed I'll see how it rides... as I said, the Bilstein are excellent off road, it's just the ride on road is bumpy and if I can cure that I can have the best of both worlds!

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