Twin shocks/Dampeners

[Cheggs]

Does anybody know where I can get a kit, or how I can get the parts ,so I can fit a second pair of shocks on the rear of my disco. I have seen loads availble for the front end, but I want to fit them at the rear, so i can remove the after market anti roll bars and get more articulation, whilst keeping body roll down, thanks  :D

[clbarclay]

Twin dampers are not a direct substitue for an anti rollbar. An anti roll bar is effectively a torsion spring linking both sides of the vehicle. To remove the anti roll bar and maintain the current body roll you would have to fit stiffer springs.

Disconnecting links for the anti roll bar are an option, you see them a lot on jeeps mainly but for some reason they are not very common modification on land rovers.



I've seen a few weld on double shock kits for the rear, a second lower mount welds on to the existing lowetr damper mount and another standard upper damper mount is bolted onto the chassis behind the axle.

[Budgie]

Wizard does a twin rear shocker kit and there was a "How too" in the workshop section on here but the workshop area seems to be blank. I've not been on here much lately so may have missed something about taking it down.

Here's a link to Wizards site: http://www.wizardbilt.com/Twin%20Shock%20Mounts.htm  

[Cheggs]

thanks for that, i have contacted Wizard and he'll mail me when he has some in stock, cheers. :)

[thermidorthelobster]

People fit Koni shocks on P38s because they have anti-roll properties, simply because they're such stiff shocks that they help prop the truck up when it goes round a corner.  Or so I've been told, I've never tried it.

[clbarclay]

Typical dampers just control the rate of movement, so fitting more or firmer dampers will mean it rolls just as far but takes longer to rol so in a short corner then the vehicle may not have rolled to its full extent, but in a longer corner the vehicle should still roll just as far. The one problem is you can end up with ovedamped suspension for the vehicle which can be detremental to ride comfort and road hiolding, particuarly on rougher terrain.


My experiance is that most Land Rovers are under damped and too softer sprung as standard for optimum on road handling, so double/higher rate dampers could well improve the handling.