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Police spec
« on: December 07, 2009, 20:18:47 »
I have fitted police spec springs to my disco

Green stripe fronts and red and white stripe on rears

the front is now 3/4 " higher than the back

and the back feels bouncy and loose

Anyone else fitted these springs and how did you get on

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Re: Police spec
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2009, 21:16:34 »

Hi Jim,

I fitted just the rears to my Disco and it behaves perfectly, best thing I ever did too.

They made the rear end much better both on and off road and lifted it by about an inch.
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Re: Police spec
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2009, 00:33:36 »
I'm looking at a set of the rears for mine, after one of the allegedly heavy duty Britpart ones I fitted six months ago appears to have gone soggy. It now sags on one side and bounces horribly when turning in one direction (loading that spring up). I have looked underneath and can see no evidence of a break or problems with the spring mounts. Swapping them over won't help as I'll still have one side softer than the other. There's no clonk or rattle, it's just saggy on one side.

Does anyone have a link to a supplier for the genuine LR HD/Police spec rear springs?
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Re: Police spec
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2009, 20:08:11 »
i had that problem the other way round fitted hc police rears and after a year thay was saging badly so fitter a full set of hd britpart ones and gaz britpart damper  was expecting the worst but year and a half later and still ok i tow quite a bit and blamed that on killing the police springs. maybe i got a good set of britparts as normaly i hate britpart as if breaks or falls off but at the time it was all i could aford.
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Re: Police spec
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2009, 20:16:07 »
I'm looking at a set of the rears for mine, after one of the allegedly heavy duty Britpart ones I fitted six months ago appears to have gone soggy. It now sags on one side and bounces horribly when turning in one direction (loading that spring up). I have looked underneath and can see no evidence of a break or problems with the spring mounts. Swapping them over won't help as I'll still have one side softer than the other. There's no clonk or rattle, it's just saggy on one side.

Does anyone have a link to a supplier for the genuine LR HD/Police spec rear springs?

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Re: Police spec
« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2009, 21:05:09 »
i fitted police spec  rear springs but didnt seem to make alot of differance, and one keeps poping out of the top for some reason?

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Re: Police spec
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2009, 18:16:17 »
Red/whites are Police spec on a RRC, not a Dsico.  The RRC had the BOGE self leveller and a lower max rear acxle load (250kg lower IIRC) so they may not be any stronger than the original Disco springs.

Green are normal rating for a Diesel RRC/Disco anyway.
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Re: Police spec
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2009, 21:59:34 »
Red/whites are Police spec on a RRC, not a Dsico.  The RRC had the BOGE self leveller and a lower max rear acxle load (250kg lower IIRC) so they may not be any stronger than the original Disco springs.

Green are normal rating for a Diesel RRC/Disco anyway.

Yeah found this out the hard way mate

I have ordered some HD yellow springs from paddocks

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