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Anti roll bars
Steven:
--- Quote from: "Iain C" ---After some swearing and the loss of a few knuckles the rear ARB is off...do people tend to take the front one off too?
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Please get back to us what you think of the ride on the road matey, now thats its off :)
Iain C:
I have to say with the rear one off it certainly does feel a bit more wallowy...odd as it may sound I think it may handle better if I take the front one off too...at least the axles will be in agreement!
When I got my Disco (at standard height on road tyres) I was amazed how well it handled to be honest (and bear in mind I'm usually driving a BMW 3 series or an MX5, neither of those RWD cars are known for woolly handling!) and by sticking fat tyres on it and a 2" lift it's certainly spoiled it's on road manners a bit. However as it's not a daily driver it will usually either be towing or going playing somewhere, so it's all a question of compromise!
Having already inverted the ARB, and having been told "take it off before you break it off" it had to go! However,just in case circumstances change, there's a big pile of tyres, springs, shocks and now ARBs at the bottom of my garden!
clbarclay:
--- Quote from: "Iain C" ---I have to say with the rear one off it certainly does feel a bit more wallowy...odd as it may sound I think it may handle better if I take the front one off too...at least the axles will be in agreement!
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Depends what you mean by agreement, the nature of the radius arm suspension on the front means that it is kind of like an inbuilt ARB anyway compared to the 3 link rear suspension.
Range Rover Blues:
The front ARB will not bind up like the back one but it will limit the articulation, much more than the back one as it's thicker.
It shouldn't fail the MOT for being removed, the car is modified, so as long as the insurance knows that's ok. If it fails the MOT take it somewhere that knows what they are doing!
I'm looking at making disconnects for mine, I hate the handling without ARB, in fact Blue has 3 of them and the LSE has uprated ones.
Iain C:
Let me know how you get on with the disconnects...as I do do some road work with my Disco I'll leave the front ARB on for now going on what you are saying.
Laning in Derbyshire tomorrow so we'll see how I get on...I've packed the socket set just in case!
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