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Range Rover Blues:
I think it's catch 22. If you fit the boots to ProCOmp and tie wrap themon then they fill with muck and the piston rusts. If you don't fit the boots then the piston get stone chipped and rusts.
What I do is cut the boot down so that it's just and only long enough to protect the piston at normal ride height and leave it free to flap about which keeps the muck off it.
Jonny Boaterboy:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on December 25, 2008, 00:17:16 ---Jonny, don't you have EAS :-k if so you can't fit longer dampers.
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Your Right RRB I do have EAS but I was assuming that as my Bilstein steering damper was a straight replacement for my original Damper they would do the same for wheel dampers?
I am also assuming that the dampers stop the axle from articulating.... i.e. as the wheel drops into a hole it will keep dropping until the damper reaches it's full extension and then holds/stops the axle from going any further. To increase your articulation you have to put dislocating cones on and longer dampers...... to the length that you want the axle to "drop" to (along with longer brake lines, more flexable radius arms etc.) So when I upgrade my air bags to the annot gen 3 bags I will have to find a damper that will extend a bit more than standard to be able to utilise the extra size in the bags? Is that right/possible?
Sorry William kind of gone off the original thread, still I guess you will need to think about all this with a 2 inch lift?
william127:
thats allright its been put on hold until i find out what these orange springs are like on/off road :D
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: Jonny Boaterboy on December 28, 2008, 13:36:12 ---
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on December 25, 2008, 00:17:16 ---Jonny, don't you have EAS :-k if so you can't fit longer dampers.
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Your Right RRB I do have EAS but I was assuming that as my Bilstein steering damper was a straight replacement for my original Damper they would do the same for wheel dampers?
I am also assuming that the dampers stop the axle from articulating.... i.e. as the wheel drops into a hole it will keep dropping until the damper reaches it's full extension and then holds/stops the axle from going any further. To increase your articulation you have to put dislocating cones on and longer dampers...... to the length that you want the axle to "drop" to (along with longer brake lines, more flexable radius arms etc.) So when I upgrade my air bags to the annot gen 3 bags I will have to find a damper that will extend a bit more than standard to be able to utilise the extra size in the bags? Is that right/possible?
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Yes, you are ight. The dampers are typically what stops the axle drooping. With coils you can fit a longer damper and get extra droop, there is perhaps another inch or so on standard springs but with plus 2" ProCOmp on our TDi it dislocates badly.
If you fit the Arnott GIII airbags then you will get just perhaps 2" on the fornt though it's hard to make up of it and up to 3£ on the back, depending on whether they have altered the length from my prototype parts. When in access my airbags ride right up over the seats, they are way too long.
I had plus 2" ProComp (now on the TDi) fitted to the LSE, I had to space the ARB to protect it but I could then get lots of articulation. My ride ehight sensors kept playing up though and for now I've got Britpart Cellular Dynaimcs on, the ride is less crashy but the rebound damping isn't as good, so going over speed humps the axles extend to the end of their travel with a thump.
See here.
Also bear in mind that with standard air bags if you over extend them they will pop off the seats, yo may then be able to repair them. With the Arnotts if yolu over extend them they rip :-o
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