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extreme90:

--- Quote from: clbarclay on June 19, 2008, 21:10:31 ---Free replacements are all very nice, but as a friend found in the middle of Wales, when the top eyes of both rear dampers* its a very long and very very bouncy drive home. IMHO for the money the rough country is a better damper, but are a little under damped on the road compared to all the uprated dampers availible (but nothiung like knackered procomps), particularly if you take the ramps where they have skimmed tarmac off the road a little to fast.

My rough country's seem to be holding up well, more of a problem than the damping I find are the plastic boots that cover the shafts (pro-comps are the same), there a mud trap and reduce travel (they concertina up into bumpstop) when fitted and the shafts do suffer from stone chips and scratches without them. The compromise i'm using is to only secure the boots at the top and trim them so the just cover the shafts on the road, loose the mud out the bottom off road and less of a bumpstop. Speaking with david from Llama they should be changing to steel sleeves like the standard LR dampers, but they don't appear to have changed yet.

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my comp truck never has had boots fitted to the rods on the damper and ive had no issues what so ever
the rubber gatiers are crap IMO

as for shocks breaking, i had a set of pro-comps that were 3 years old on mine and they were fine.....they only broke in the end at the bottom because they had got bent then straightend that many times they just snapped when being abused on a challenge event
you hear bad  stories about pro-comps, but afink its down to fitment and the type of bush used

ive seen broken OME's before, and dephili de-carbons
in the offroad world, everything breaks, nothing is unbreakable

muddy eveitt:
hello chaps i really do thank u all for helpin me out kind of got an idear but in away still lost still dont no what to get lol

littlepow:
Have used Pro-comps, they weren't dampening the spring rebound very well. So I have switched to OME (they also matched the spring ratings), made a big improvement even if they did cost a few pennies more.

Which ever dampers you go for, let the retailer know what the spring ratings are so they can get the best damper match. This will make a big difference to the performance on and off road.

clbarclay:

--- Quote from: extreme90 on June 19, 2008, 23:35:55 ---my comp truck never has had boots fitted to the rods on the damper and ive had no issues what so ever
the rubber gatiers are crap IMO
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I don't think it was whilst off roading that the shafts got scratched on my dampers, rather the stone chips whilst driving on roads. The scratches apperaed so as much as I would sooner not fit them the boots went on.

Sabo:
Hi

I've got a 110, fitted 2"lift with bearmach springs and have pro comp shocks on - it is unstable as it bounces around like onow.
Suspect it's the procomp shocks.
Looking around for some different ones but go to save!
Even my club say I bounce too much when greenlaning as well.

Any one know a 2" lift 110 make of shock?

Dave

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