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How high is your 110?
Niel:
--- Quote from: "Darren" ---Thanks Kevin. Not what you'd call conclusive, but it looks like it might be lifted except that the weight of the 8274 and huge winch bumper are dragging the front down a bit. Oh well, they're coming off soon so shall have to see what difference they make.
By chance, I swapped one of the rear wheels yesterday so I took a piccy of the suspension. The spring has a red stripe on it and the shocks are a sort of dark red colour. No visible markings. Anybody recognise them?
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The colour reminds me of Koni's.
Smaller winch or total weight loss?
Darren:
--- Quote from: "Niel" ---The colour reminds me of Koni's.
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I'd be delighted if they were, but the Koni's I had on my Discovery were more orange than red so I'm not sure :?
--- Quote from: "Niel" ---Smaller winch or total weight loss?
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I'm going down the demountable route - something I started about a year ago for my Discovery 1 but put to one side when I bought a Disco II :roll:
Wolfie:
--- Quote from: "Darren" --- The spring has a red stripe on it
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Is that a single red stripe, or a pair of them? If it's a pair it would seem to be standard LR heavy duty spring, see http://members.shaw.ca/jbarge/springinfo.html . This would have been stock on a commercial LR without the self leveller. Was yours always a SW?
With a winch on the front, you may well have the LR HD fronts, which are just 90 rears, seems to be a pretty good set up in my experience.
Wolfie:
I think it's usual, when the self leveller is consigned to it's righful place, to switch to the HD springs.
Coincidentally, it was Frogs Island who reccomended just using the standard springs on Heather, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had used them on vehicles in their workshops.
Darren:
--- Quote from: "Wolfie" ---Is that a single red stripe, or a pair of them? If it's a pair it would seem to be standard LR heavy duty spring, see http://members.shaw.ca/jbarge/springinfo.html . This would have been stock on a commercial LR without the self leveller.
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Thanks for the link. Now that I know what to look for I'll have another look.
--- Quote from: "Wolfie" ---Was yours always a SW?
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Hmm, as far as I know, yes. It's possible to see where the self-leveller was mounted underneath. The back axle is a later one (with disc brakes) and I've got a strong suspicion that the vehicle has been through the workshops of Frogs Island for a major overhaul at some time in the past, so the springs are almost certainly not the originals.
--- Quote from: "Wolfie" ---With a winch on the front, you may well have the LR HD fronts, which are just 90 rears, seems to be a pretty good set up in my experience.
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Could just be HD all round then, which would make sense.
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