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Shock Tower Spacer

Tech Talk for Rover owners.

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Shock Tower Spacer

Post by defender kev »

Wheres the best place to get a set of spacers for my defender need about 1" prefer Melbourne.

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Post by landy_man »

easiest thing to do is get some made....
find a machine shop and get them to turn you some up...
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Post by bazzle »

Ring a local steel supplier and get him to cut some off some hollow bar?

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Post by madrangie »

if you want them email me as i have a set made already at a inch ... can do custom lengths too
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Post by Slunnie »

Do you do these for D2's also?
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Post by madrangie »

if the tower bolt up pattern is the same yes ... i have a mate with a 110 def extreme and the pattern is the same so i assume it will be the same with disco's..
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Post by Slunnie »

Ta MadRangie. I'll work out the PCD and see if they match. I think the D2 has different upper shock mounts to the D1, but the tower mount may be the same.
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Post by RaginRover »

now you will all be able to run 80 series cruiser shocks and pick up an inch or two travel, make sure your brake lines are long enough
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Post by Slunnie »

I currently run rear Patrol shocks up front which are about 10". They have the eye/eye mounts which I thought was different to most of the LR stuff. I'm thinking that with the shock tower spacers it may allow more compression travel with a longer shock.
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Post by modman »

as i recently found out, one inch spacers using a threaded tube arangement has to be 30 mm to get at least 10-15mm of bolt intothe spacer. or you could grind about 7mm of the thread on the retaining ring.
imo with a good thread the bolt only needs to 10-12mm for full strength.
david.
ps also see if the spacers can be madefrom a material that can be tightened up by a tool eg-crowbar, so you can tighten them down with a spanner.
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