Suspension for Td5 Discovery 2000 Model

arowanaman,

I would go with Bilsteins and king springs, make sure you use a Bilstein steering damper as well these are the only ones we found that work on Disco's

Bilsteins were developed in Australia for the Landrovers.

I put Old Man Emu springs and shocks on my Series 2 , kept the original steering damper . Terrific rig , and the lift was about 50mm .

arowanaman,

I have a Series 2 Disco with the Bilsteins and King springs combo and it's just terrific.

Ricks 4WD Centre at unit 1, 21 Lawrence Drive Nerang Ph 55966662 can fit these for you. He's been servicing my Landrovers for years and you will find that he is very reasonably priced and knows Landrovers back to front. They are the only vehicles he deals with,

Cheers

Richard

HI Glenn,

From memory ,and mine is hopeless, it was around $1200 both for the shocks and King springs.

As one of the other posts mentioned is is good practice to replace the steering damper when you replace all the shocks.

As I also tow a camper trailer (around 1tonne) I fitted heavy duty springs to the rear.

We've just come back from a trip to Cape York with a group of friends and the Bilsteins were fantastic. You can buy novelty number plates which say 9,460,000 corrugations to go and I reckon that it's about 2,000,000 short.

The only brand of shocks that failed on the trip were the OME ones. There were 4 failures on one vehicle alone and I'm talking fitted brand new before the start of the trip.

Just be careful, but Rick will advise you, around 40mm is the optimum lift on a TD5 before you start having to lengthen drive shafts etc.... .

Good Luck

Cheers
Richard

Sorry to be so long in replying.

Yes the steering damper was in the final price.

Cheers

Richard

I try again, too keen on pushing buttons.

The vehicle handles very well with H/D springs on the rear and standards on the front. Certainly a lot better than I expected.

I don't know the spring ratings for them as originally I put standards on both the front and rear and clearly it was not up to scratch when I was towing the fully laden C/T.

Rick replaced the rears with H/d ones for free. About the only thing I do notice is that the rears are certainly of a much heavier gauge than the fronts.

I was also keen on the OME shocks for the vehicle until I started undertaking a fair bit of research, talking with L/Rover owners specifically and went off them. But when I actually saw the failures, that's put me off them forever.

It may well be that OME's are ideal for some vehicles. By the way the failures were on a reasonably new Troopy. Had about 60,000kms on the clock.

I tend to like to do my own research and satisfy my own specific questions. Although this forum is excellent, there seems to be some opinions expressed that seem to result from somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody who thinks that they may have overheard someone saying they had a problem.

Cheers

Richard

You are certainly welcome to have a look. Give me a bell on 0428942060 when you are ready.

Cheers
Richard

Glenn,

I've done quite a bit to mine including the chip upgrade, replacing the aluminium radiator with a copper one, dual batteries, TJM winch bar,spotties, cargo barrier etc etc . I'll show you when we meet up.

The chip upgrade certainly has made a difference as you've noticed. Also, in one of my madder moments installed a couple of hyclones , but I could not say that they have done anything more than relieve me of a few hundred dollars.

Catch up

Cheers

Richard.

Let's put the reported failure of the OME shocks into perspective . For years now , OME springs and shocks have been severely used and have had an excellent reputation . Now we have one report of failure and all the previous experience is thrown out the window !

It may well be that all of a sudden , OME has suddenly stopped making a good product and has started making grossly defective rubbish . But before we take that giant presumptive leap shouldn't we investigate just a little further ?

The obvious questions to ask are :

Was the failed equipment OME , new , complete , correctly installed , appropriate for the vehicle and task ,and not abused .

Why hasn't all the other OME equipment in use failed ?

Apart from OME , ARB is known to be careful of their reputation as to selling quality gear , have they stopped selling OME , or commented ?

Has OME been approached for comment ?

Was this a "one off " incident with a known and corrected cause ?

If all OME is to be discarded on the basis of this report , do we discard all Bilsteins when we get a similar incident with them ? I am reminded of a convoy of 4WD vehicles that went Adelaide to the gulf and back , all the Toyota's and Nissan's had failures and the lone Defender had none : perhaps we should all drive Defenders , until one of them fails .

Last , four failures on the one vehicle ? If one had failed it would much more indicate a problem with OME , for four to fail I would suspect the particular vehicle fit .