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Hi, recently changed springs back to standard, but do i need to change shockers too. It did have a lift on it apparently when i bought it so will the shockers be bigger than standard ones. Im getting a lot of floating about on back end while driving but is it down to shockers or do i need to fit...

Got under defender today to see if i could see colours on springs. On front passenger ive got white and yellow, on front driver’s i think its blue red, on rear passenger its blue yellow and rear drivers its blue green. So after looking at the charts there all wrong, the ones on back are HD and...

Ha,ha, its a good solid truck plus its got galvanised chassis so its a bonus. I just cant see why you would put a full TD5 body on it instead of just replacing crap parts especially when your stripping it to replace chassis. And I don’t fancy loosing £7 grand. Ive seen 2 with galvanised chassis...

But i have a 1987 E reg and those fixings on the bukhead are solid but chassis and engine numbers all match. Ive had this a few years now. As for the one im looking to buy its the rear tub, yes you could change it to TD5 tub with fuel filler at over side of arch but why would you. Its also got...

Hi everyone, I'm thinking of getting another Defender and I've looked at a few. I have been offered one with a galvanised chassis which looks pretty good but its on a 1990 G reg but its a TD5 engine and body and i know TD5 didn’t come around till 1998 so i don’t know what to do. He says hes...

It does explain the right way round to put them in my landy manual. I will have a proper look at it tomorrow.

If you stand your spring up on a level surface and look at one end, the coils are closer together at the bottom that the top of the spring. Or so ive been told.

The tyres are all 265/70/r16 i am changing the front, its a road tyre as the rest are AT’s. Ive just found a set of four springs same code, same colour codes as the ones on the chart top ones 90 2 seat utility 2400kg so im going for them. I had them springs put on at a land rover place and as...

Yes ive noticed there are no bump stops on rear also i got a 90 coil spring chart last night online, the same one and after looking at the photos I've taken the passenger front is coloured yellow and white which according to the chart is a rear passenger. I cant see the colours on the other...

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When i bought the 90 i was told with receipt to back up that it had new shocks all way round. Ive just looked under front to see if there are any blocks on axle, bottom of coil but they aren’t. But i did notice the shockers at front are black while the shockers at back are orange/red so they...

Im going to take wheel off this week as tyre wants changing so il have a look. It would make sense. But the place i got coils put on by new i wanted it to standard so if it has got blocks why would they leave them ?. Like i say il check hopefully you’re right. Thanks

please see photos. im measuring from flat ground to bottom of the arch the front are 35" and the rear are 33"

I saw the truck the springs came off, they were changing them to 2”+ the truck itself was in good nick, well looked after and they are standard springs that i got and by the look of them hadn’t been on the truck long themselves. Like i say they were fitted from Beaumont Halifax who have a good...

Well i say new, i bought them from a Land Rover place in Harrogate from a bloke who sells good second hand parts from stripping Landy’s. They came off of a 90, they were three different sizes tho he told me the 2 shorter go on the back & the 2 larger on the front but one front was longer than...