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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: mudboy on December 16, 2009, 18:52:18

Title: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: mudboy on December 16, 2009, 18:52:18

i have seen loads of 90s with the scorpion extreme/equipe suspension but i dont really want to follow the crowd
would love to hear all opinions on what other suspension kits people would recomend cheers  :D

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: suggs on December 16, 2009, 19:24:59

http://www.gwynlewis4x4.co.uk/page56a.html

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: Disco-andy on December 16, 2009, 22:09:27

You could also look at this stuff. although I think i would still go with the gwyn lewis type stuff


Rear (http://www.qtservices.co.uk/product.asp?id=3003)        Front (http://www.qtservices.co.uk/product.asp?id=3004)

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: Axetamer on December 18, 2009, 20:30:16

I've had the full Gwyn lewis +5.5 setup front and rear on my 90  for over a year and the only problem has been is with the polybushes on the rear which keep popping over the flanges on the rear trailing arms, maybe thats the problem with so much articulation,  you don't notice anything untoward when offroading, they probably keep popping on and off,  but when going home you will feel like you have a puncture at the back, I just pop them back over the flange with a big screwdriver. I'm using polybush blues which are supposed to be the softest?

The front shock turrets stick through the inner wings almost touching the bottom of the expansion tank, making the turret covers redundant, unfortunately allowing considerably more crap into the engine bay, I haven't fathomed a way around this

Another thing is to use LR bushes in the radius arms to axle bushes, as polybushes restrict the downward articulation at the front by about 2 inches, as I found out after polybushing all round, so replaced mine for LR ones which I pushed in using a big vice...movement back..

I've the terrafirma shocks on mine which have a shaft size which is considerably thicker than the procomps they replaced, I would imagine the ome stuff is heavy duty too.

I'm happy with mine all said and done,

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: kitted110 on December 18, 2009, 21:14:34

if your good at fabrication u could make your own mounts and get some shocks of dave at lamma4x4 with 14inc travel all round with a nice soft spring that will compress,wide angle aframe balljoint from x-eng mmmm and also x-arms lol there nxt on my list hehe but it all depends on what cash u want to spend?????? :dance:

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: Mark_Solesbury on December 19, 2009, 17:51:40

Twin lockers :) Doesnt matter if a wheel is of the ground then

Title: Re: best articulation suspension mods for a 90
Post by: clbarclay on December 22, 2009, 00:14:17

As above. Locking diffs are perhaps better value for money than extreme suspension setups, but then in competitions they can put you in a different class as a result.

The Gwyn Lewis kit is very good for the money, I was running that setup for a while, but bigger tyres and range rover wheel arches meant that rationalising the suspension travel was the obvious choice (simply fitted standard front dampers on the rear) and its not very often I miss the travel compared to the advantage of the bigger tyres.