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Rear Shock relocation

Tech Talk for Rover owners.

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Rear Shock relocation

Post by takearidewifme »

Hey guys....

the rear shock set up on a 79 is pretty pi** poor for articulation...prob same for most models.... anyhow.. Im doing the Hilux centre thing and when I reinstall the rear diff I wanna move the rear shocks to somewhere that allows DROOP....
Ive been talking with Bill ( Daddylonglegs) and he has some gr8 ideas and experiance and Ill prob consult him further when Im actually doing the conversion But I thought Id see if anyone else had any good ideas.....

I was thinking 45deg both front mount but things are in the way.... anyway let me know if you have a special set up and pics would be GR8...

Mark
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Post by HSV Rangie »

How much travel you looking for.

relocate the top mount easy.

10 or 12 inch shock is more than enough.

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Post by modman »

like michael said,
move both mounts foward of the axle iff possible like a defender
(i think you can??)
make new top mounts and use/make a pin to eye convertor for the bottom mount.
this gives you access to a greater range of longer travel shocks.
(like the ford louisville monroe shocks 781 open 453 closed 328 travel,12.9")-$180 a pair
bills got some good ideas hey, his 3 link front jobs work rather well :cool:
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Post by takearidewifme »

yeah forward is the go...
so do you think keeping the mounts on the chassis rails is the way or fabbibg a xmember and mounting front and in?

Yeah bill knows his stuff....and a gr8 guy to boot...

Mark
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Post by modman »

you can mount the shocks / \ like toy guys do on rolluxes.
one of the american rover sites advertises a kit including crossmember to do this on 90's because they have side tanks(series style).
could be rovertym's or east coast rovers site, i'm not sure at the moment.
i gues you would need a fairly heavily valved shock because of the leverage differences.
david
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