blue beasty said:

for the life of me I cant imagine why anyone would want to....

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redhand said:

general concensus is, that it's ok for spotty geeks in SJ's but not really doable in a series. I've got spring over axles on the Disco. If a pic of that would get yu ya jollies I'll be happy to post one..

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300bhp/ton said:

erm, cost it's an instant 4" lift, massively improves chassis ground clearance, improves under axle clearance, improves approach angle, improves potential wheel travel and flex.


It's also a proven advancement in leaf sprung technology as demonstrated by Toyota with their world beater Hilux pickup truck and of course LAND ROVER with the Series IIb and FC101.



For the life of me I can't understand why people are so blinkered and set in the 1940's

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300bhp/ton said:

erm, cost it's an instant 4" lift, massively improves chassis ground clearance, improves under axle clearance, improves approach angle, improves potential wheel travel and flex.

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300bhp/ton said:

Considering it's been done, it really proves you are just plain ol wrong. :doh:



Oh look, a factory spec Land Rover with SOA

:doh::doh::doh:

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redhand said:

So does it move the Diff out of the way as well?? That really is amazing :doh:

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blue beasty said:

Because Land Rover decided to cobble together a lorry from what they had lying about doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.........wonderful as 2bs and FCs are they've always been a bit 'special'

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Bump said:

These images have all been *borrowed* from Devon4x4 - nothing to do with me, just thought i'd satisfy your SOA fetish.

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V8jon said:

I looked into this when I was putting disco axles on my series but decided not to do it. When you do soa they suffer from bad axle wrap resulting in broken diff pinions/propshafts, you have to fit anti wrap bars to stop it which at the rear is straight forward as there's lots of space in front of the axle to do it but the front is harder to fabricate due to all the steering components and the way the springs are mounted.
It's possible on suzukis because the spring shackles are at the front not the back like landys so the anti wrap bars can be fitted to the rear of the front axle.

Have a look at this

Florida Landrover Club - General Discussion

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300bhp/ton said:

Cheers for the link.

Don't series motors suffer a lot of axle wrap stock anyhow. My train of thought was to swap the shackles onto the front of the front springs as this should reduce a lot of the wrap straight off. Early Series 1's had the shackles at the front.

I was also wondering about running a longer spring on the front too.

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V8jon said:

Yeah they do but it makes it a lot worse with s.o.a, I really looked into this and was determined to do it but I would have had to do too many modifications and would have had to go on a Q plate,if it was just an offroader I'd have done it.

This fella has extended the front chassis and fitted longer springs and by the looks of it it's got more travel than a coiler!

Can't remember where I got the pics from but it was on the net somewhere :doh:

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tottot said:

Some years ago changed my series 2a to front shackles after badly bending a dumb iron on a 4x4 trial ,the idea was to save damage[one now had something that gave some at the front instead of being solid]also when the shackle came against a solid object and swung back the spring/wheel was pushed down helping you get out of the hole you were in. Worked well off road but on road there were strange steering effects at times,something to do with the L/rovers steering rod geometry, it coming from one side of the chassis unlike the Jeep whos relay is in the center and why L/rover changed to rear shackles I think. Hope this helps, cheers.

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