Been a while since I posted. My son and his buddies basically jumped his Disco last year (yeah, complete JA move, thankfully no one was injured). Ive posted about it in other posts.
Anyway, i've been piecing it back together since then. No body damage, just axel and suspension. I stated on my own then ended up bringing it into a mechanic of the real heavy lifting. Here is what we have done so far
1) Complete new front axle
2) 4 New ties
3) 1 new rim, drive side front
4) New steering tie rod and damper
5) New shocks and springs both front and back
6) Alignment
The car is almost perfect again. It actually aligns and drives very well..however, there is only 1 issue that neither myself nor my mechanic could figure out....its got a pretty significant lean to the passenger side. probably a good 1-1/4 inch diff measuring from the center axel to the top of the wheel well. The body mounts look good to me .... and something I would think my mechanic would have been able to diagnose. He basically threw up hands after 7k worth of work and said there was nothing more he could do. This was more of general car shop as opposed to body shop or suspension specialist.

So the other day i took it into a suspension shop, it appears my mechanic used
NRC4306 for the front driver side and
572315 for the front passenger side
Both can be found here - https://www.roverparts.com/suspension/springs-hardware/

My question is, these springs are noticeably different lengths, different number of coils and upon measurement APPEARS to account for the 1-1/4 lean to the passenger side. Looking at the other sets of springs that fit a 97 discovery 1, like OME or terraforma, the springs for both sides appear to be the same. Can anyone shed some light on this? should the passenger side spring be shorter? the springs we used were sold separately...not as a set. is possible these are not listed properly on roverparts? like 1 is for a lifted set and the other stock?

Small Edit:
Also wanted to add a couple more links here. Fully spitballing, but what do you think the odds are that the concept of (LHD and RHD along with LH and RH) has gotten muddied with these online parts stores. seems to me that according to this:
https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-572315
The shorter spring that was put on my passerside is described as "Discovery 1 - All 2.0L MPi Petrol models - Front driver's side, std, blue stripe". Im assuming MPi Petrol models are Right Hand Drive Euro models.

https://rimmerbros.com/Item--i-NRC4306
The longer spring that was put on my driver side is described as "Discovery 1 - All 2.0L MPi Petrol models - Front passenger's side, std, blue/white stripe AND Discovery 1 - All LHD V8 Petrol models - Front LH, std, blue/white stripe". Assuming V8 Petrol Models are US models ALSO it explicitly says LHD for left hand drive. Looking at this is it possible that the NRC4306 model should be placed on both sides or no?

 

I know that original equipment NAS front springs are different right vs left, but not exactly sure how they differ. As I recall the original RF is thinner than LF (that is, different spring rate).

I replaced springs on my 94. The new set was from Rimmer Bros. UK, and those were identical front springs. Rear springs also match. Maybe that is spec for RHD vehicles. Either way my springs and ride height are about equal.

Maybe try different springs in the front, or maybe the chassis is bent.

 

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Thanks for the reply. If you check out the edit to my post, im wondering if maybe Left Side/Right Side has gotten muddied with Left Hand Drive and Right Hand Drive. I cant believe that they would use 2 different length springs in the front of the car....and find it oddly coincidental that the difference in the spring length is the same as the amount of lean that Im seeing in the car

 

I think the lengths should be nearly equal, but the spring rates are slightly different for blue/white vs blue stripe springs, to account for the differential being off-center? Maybe one of the springs is wrong if it is too short. The rear springs are longer than the front springs.

 

I would think mixing up the springs right for left wouldn’t cause the amount of lean you’re talking about. I suspect that getting the springs individually instead of as a pair might be the issue.

 

Thanks for the reply! I really dont think they mixed up right vs left so much as Im wondering if there is a euro version and a NAS version for the sprints. Euro vs NAS is often noted on land rover parts as RHD and LHD for Right hand drive (driver on the right side) or Left Hand Drive (driver on the left). When you look up coils for a 97 Disco, you get 2 results for the front. which are listed above. I know Im going out on a limb here, but Im thinking that 1 spring is for Euro and 1 is NAS but people are reading it as right spring left spring as opposed to this is the spring for a right hand drive version of the car and this is a spring for the left hand drive version of the car