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slomofo:
Here's a run down of where I got to after replacing a pair of shocks on my 90

Replaced Rear leaking Pair with Terrafirma - quite firm but much better than original
Replaced Front Pair along with Terrafirma after winch & bumper killed the originals - very good!
Fitted +40mm  Bearmach springs all round - bit firm...
Cranked Trailing Arms...
Castor Corrected Radius Arms

Went bonkers and decided to go for a Flexkit and from MiB - so +5" Rough Country Shocks followed by wide angle props front and rear plus new mountings.
The 265/75/16 MT's looked a bit skinny, so 33/12.5/15's went on....

Must stop now!

In short, the rough country shocks are great, better than Terrafirma for road manners!

V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: gnasha on September 03, 2011, 12:20:28 ---been advised on a few forums now to give pro comp a miss and go for rough country or terrafima

--- End quote ---

Having used both Rough Country and TerraFirma, I see them as two very different qualities. The shafts on the RC's are way smaller and rusted within 3 weeks of getting the 90 on the road. You could see the shaft bending at full rebound. Not good. I also found them rather under damped for road use.

The TerraFirma have 20mm shafts and they are as good as the day I fitted them over a year ago. The feel on the road is vastly better than the Rough Country's too.

gnasha:
sounds like terrafirma getting more votes here and elsewere

adafish:
yep....had Pro-comp and they snapped at weld, changed to RC ( I know Dave ), and like fella above said, rusted and shafts flexed a bit...So Porny @ IRB got me Terryfarmer ones, with uprated springs , flexes nicely and does'nt wallow when i throw her round bends..With 2" spring spacers, +9 front QT radius arms and same at back, shes a tall girl...

Devon-Rover:
Been Running Terrafirma Dampers since march 2009. Still as good as the day i got them. And they haven't had an easy life either.

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