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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19560  
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Indeed ^^^^ I done the same but standard set up instead.
Just be careful, soak any fixings in penetrating fluid overnight beforehand. Ideal time to change spring seats and or add isolators too. No spring compressors ever needed. 👍🏻 Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧 |
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15th Apr 2018 4:12pm |
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| Imax Member Since: 09 Apr 2018 Location: South West England Posts: 28
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This is very interesting reading as i am keen to do the suspension on my 110 Puma Hard Top.
I have been looking at the Twisted Progressive set up which they advertise for £2274. Not sure if this is a fitted price. Also had a look at the Alive site earlier and the cost seems a lot lower for the complete set of springs, dampers, steering damper and ARB. Is the Twisted set up worth the extra?? I need to confirm if the £2274 includes fitting... I hope not!!! I will need to get a garage to fit and will need to carefully consider whether to just go with the B6 Bilstein dampers and upgraded ARB. I did also phone Devon 4x4 and they recommended Old Man Emu dampers... Sorry lots of questions... |
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15th Apr 2018 7:43pm |
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| richg Member Since: 01 Aug 2016 Location: Southampton Posts: 18 
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I don't know for sure, but I am told that the twisted kit is exactly the same (although having said that the springs are different brand, but essentially the same compression etc).
It only takes a few hours to swap everything over (maybe 3-4), so I guess the alive or flatdog or devon kit is very good value. There is a set of bilstein shocks available on here for sale, they are exactly the same as the alive ones, but the previous owner paid nearly 3 times the amount (essentially for the twisted badge) |
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15th Apr 2018 8:18pm |
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| richg Member Since: 01 Aug 2016 Location: Southampton Posts: 18
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I don't know for sure, but I am told that the twisted kit is exactly the same (although having said that the springs are different brand, but essentially the same compression etc).
It only takes a few hours to swap everything over (maybe 3-4), so I guess the alive or flatdog or devon kit is very good value. There is a set of bilstein shocks available on here for sale, they are exactly the same as the alive ones, but the previous owner paid nearly 3 times the amount (essentially for the twisted badge) |
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15th Apr 2018 8:19pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19560
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Only pain doing DIY I found was the damper top mounts.
Anyone got any tips for torquing them up? Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧 |
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15th Apr 2018 8:38pm |
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| legin Member Since: 22 Jul 2017 Location: Chelmsford Essex Posts: 1004 
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James I have genuine Land Rover bushes which I found to my liking .
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15th Apr 2018 9:07pm |
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| pesto_trader Member Since: 26 Jun 2013 Location: Oslo Posts: 148  
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Ok, basically the great setup is standard springs with Bilstein b6 right? How often does people change springs? They seem to last a long time. I dont do offroad too much. Would it be sensible to change springs after 60000 miles? Or is that almost stupid?
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16th Apr 2018 11:04am |
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| Ramsay Member Since: 30 Sep 2015 Location: Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway Posts: 625  
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The OEM coil springs will have been manufactured with at least a 100,000 mile life expectancy. Obviously failure of a coil spring is quite annoying depending how far from civilisation you are at the time. I'm probably going to run till one fails then replace all unless I start doing more expedition type stuff in which case I will replace before I start (at around 90,000 miles now) 1995 Defender 110 CSW
1971 SIIA Lightweight |
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