Snorkel and shock turret help please

ok so I'm wanting to get this disco from standard to, well, not standard. I've got a couple of questions about the front end if anyone can help please...

-I'm thinking of getting the terrafirma +5 adjustable shocks, has anyone got or heard of any experience with them?

-am I right in thinking that if use +5 shocks on the front, I want 2" extended turrets?

-if I fit extended turrets then how do they work with the main intake pipe being just above the standard turret, and can I still fit any type of snorkel or do I need to buy an abs fitting snorkel?

Thanks for any help

Towsey

Afternoon Towsey hope your well
Why go to that extreme ? Why not just go 2" all around ? That way you wont have to change the bushes in the hockey sticks !
As for the snorkel if you have abs fitted then I think you have to get one that suits the abs ? If i'm wrong someone will be along to correct me I'm sure ! LOL


Steve

Eyup mate, how's them bacon butties goin down ha.

Well there's a couple of things. We have good (rough) places to go round us, and discos with 2" lift and 2" shocks just can't do a lot of it cos they get cross axled too easily. And we spend a lot of time at kirton (k.o.r.c) and tong which again are more enjoyable the better your vehicle performs.

Now here's the important bit (to me anyway), for the last five years I've had a break from land rovers and I've had another off roader whose make I better not mention on here haha. Anyway 'Vera' has been a really good little vehicle, reliable and good off road, including going many places that land rovers either couldn't get at all or had a going on getting there. Sorry to any hardcore Land Rover owners but it's true, been there and done it! However, now we've got a son I wanted to go back to having a disco because they are bigger and nicer to drive and be in on the road. Anyway, I said that if I was to have a disco it would need to perform well or it would do my head in getting stuck in places where Vera used to just keep going.

The back is sorted I think, it's getting +5's and some 4xforce rear arms, and then a 4xforce a-frame if it needs it. I am wondering about just going +2 on the front depending on wot needs to be done to get +5's to work.

So anybody reading this who has extended turrets please let me know if it all works ok please

Many thanks

Towsey

on a similar note.....
I have 300TDi with +2 springs, +5" shocks and extended front turrets.
How do you stop the top front shock pin from wearing thru the inlet hose? Have you lifted the air box so that the hose clears, or just put a rubber washer over the pin? any problems with the restricted air flow?

Also how (without removing it) do you stop the rear A/R bar from flipping over?

I've not done mine yet but that's one of my questions from my first post, but at least you've confirmed that it does happen cheers What turrets, springs and shocks do you have on then, and wots your rear set up? Does it all work ok???

I can't remember without going out to look but does it matter if your rear arb runs the other way up? I think I remember seeing spacers on one once but I didn't ask why!

Cheers

Towsey

Glynn Lewis rear shock relocators and front turrets. Terra firma extreme long travel shocks and yellow +2" springs all round. hockey stick camber adjust bushes and 33" tyres.

Why go to all the trouble of lifting the bloody thing then leaving the arb on ? surely this lessens the articulation ???? if your doing serious off road !!
My snorkel don't go any were near shocker top ! will take picys IF it stops raining !!

Magicgrotto said:

Why go to all the trouble of lifting the bloody thing then leaving the arb on ? surely this lessens the articulation ???? if your doing serious off road !!
My snorkel don't go any were near shocker top ! will take picys IF it stops raining !!

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it was done to fit slightly larger tyres, not for articulation as the body has not been cut. I dont do serious off road, just rutted lanes, but would still like to get around roundabouts .

its not the snorkel - its the pipe from air filter to turbo that goes over the shock turret.

Hi M/H/M
My inlet to turbo comes out the side of my air box ! by the sound of it yours comes out the back ??

Steve

Magicgrotto said:

Hi M/H/M
My inlet to turbo comes out the side of my air box ! by the sound of it yours comes out the back ??

Steve

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my snorkel goes to side of airbox. turbo pipe comes from rear.

YES sust were your coming from now M/H/M !! longer shock turrets so it will catch / rub ! but surly nothing should move that far so as to make a hole in the pipe ??
The only thing i could suggest is a bracket of some sort to fasten pipe to turret !????

Steve

Is the ride ok then, if you've got arb on then I mean over bumps not on corners?

My box to turbo pipe goes out of back straight over the top of the turret which is why I'm concerned about that and my mate had a snorkel on his and cos it was a non abs disco, the pipe from the inner wing to the airbox was moulded round the back of the airbox, sort of round and over the turret and in the airbox on the alternator side. I think it was a genuine safari, that's my concern about that if I put long turrets on

Hope all this makes sense

Towsey

Magicgrotto said:

YES sust were your coming from now M/H/M !! longer shock turrets so it will catch / rub ! but surly nothing should move that far so as to make a hole in the pipe ??
The only thing i could suggest is a bracket of some sort to fasten pipe to turret !????

Steve

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the top fixing of the shock sticks up thru the turret and will rub on the inlet hose, making a hole in it.

towsey956 said:

Is the ride ok then, if you've got arb on then I mean over bumps not on corners?

My box to turbo pipe goes out of back straight over the top of the turret which is why I'm concerned about that and my mate had a snorkel on his and cos it was a non abs disco, the pipe from the inner wing to the airbox was moulded round the back of the airbox, sort of round and over the turret and in the airbox on the alternator side. I think it was a genuine safari, that's my concern about that if I put long turrets on

Hope all this makes sense

Towsey

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i have exactly the same (will take pics tomoz) and have the same concerns. I have, as requested, placed an old shock rubber over the shock top, but it still compresses the inlet pipe. I think it needs the airbox lifted and the pipe sheilded.

Would it help if you cut the threads down, or stick a plate to the inlet pipe for it to rub on? I want to know how to make all this work cos I want to do it ha

Towsey

towsey956 said:

Would it help if you cut the threads down, or stick a plate to the inlet pipe for it to rub on? I want to know how to make all this work cos I want to do it ha

Towsey

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if yu cut the thread down, yu will never get the shock off. a rubber bush is the recommended choice by TF. I think there must be a better choice. I am working on it. Any ideas appreciated .

i forgot to mention extended brake hoses

Hmm, I didn't know if you could cut the threads but leave enough to put a couple of flat spots back on but still have lost enough thread to help but I get ya. I don't know how far you can lift an airbox without it touching the bonnet liner or bonnet cos most of wots under there does anyway as standard ha. Or are any other air boxes that are a bit different, I can't remember

Does yours ride bumps ok then, not too hard or soft

Towsey

ride is fine.
I think airbox can be lifted by about 1/2"

M/H/M are your turrets the ones made from tube ??