Too skeered to go wheelin' in my Disco. Give me confidence!

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

#21

09-10-2009, 03:57 PM

Urban Panzer

Recovery Vehicle

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: UK

Posts: 1,155

Likes: 0

Received 8 Likes on 8 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pipedream

I would love to get an off road bumper, I know some of them come with a washer fluid bottle relocation kit that moves it to a different area, one location is against the firewall next to the fuse box if it does not have SAI, the other location I am not sure of. I also have the Hurricane 18s with stock suspension It may be an illusion from pictures I have seen of the 16s but the approach seem to be better. All I know is I have a bumper when I get home, others not so much. I took this picture last year and it made me realize how close I was.

Looks like loads a room to me.........this is how close you can get !! im on 18"s with stock suspension to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI5R-sEqgrA

Last edited by Urban Panzer; 09-10-2009 at 04:01 PM.

Reply Like

#22

09-10-2009, 04:26 PM

AK Rover

TReK

Join Date: Aug 2008

Location: Soldotna, AK

Posts: 2,740

Likes: 0

Received 11 Likes on 5 Posts

To quote a famous person, "go as slow as possible and as fast as necessary off road."

These trucks will take an incredible amount of abuse off road and keep going. I never had my Rover leave me wondering if it would get me home.

Reply Like

#23

09-10-2009, 05:16 PM

hazletbassist89

Recovery Vehicle

Join Date: Feb 2008

Location: Hazlet, NJ

Posts: 939

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

UP I'm gonna make an audio file of your engine, throw it on cd and blast it in my Disco at all times. Diesel is definitely superior.

Reply Like

#24

09-10-2009, 06:25 PM

Spike555

Team Owner

Join Date: Jun 2007

Location: Grand Rapids MI

Posts: 26,212

Likes: 0

Received 95 Likes on 72 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by meltdowndave

Thanks for the posts.

Again, it's not a matter of confidence in my ability, it's a matter of "what's going to break next?"

You cant worry about that stuff man, if you do you will never leave the house.
One life, Live it.

Reply Like

#25

09-10-2009, 08:20 PM

malmberg

Mudding

Join Date: Sep 2008

Location: Cathedral City, Ca

Posts: 220

Likes: 0

Received 1 Like on 1 Post

The Disco is built to go through trails. Would you buy a sports car and not put the pedal to the metal? If you aren't going to use your Rover for what it is built for you might as well get a van. Then you will have all the room and get better gas mileage.

Reply Like

#26

09-11-2009, 12:14 AM

oysterhead

Winching

Join Date: Jun 2009

Posts: 733

Likes: 0

Received 2 Likes on 2 Posts

Quote:

Originally Posted by hazletbassist89

This is from a project East Coast Rover did, washer relocation kit, shock reservoirs, and even dual batteries

what are the shock reservoirs for?

Reply Like

#27

09-11-2009, 08:45 AM

hazletbassist89

Recovery Vehicle

Join Date: Feb 2008

Location: Hazlet, NJ

Posts: 939

Likes: 0

Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts

They're Bilsteins, I think maybe the 7000 series or whatever their high end ones are. You can read the whole build (and all of their builds) here http://eastcoastrover.com/168.html

Reply Like

#28

09-11-2009, 11:33 AM

handsome rob

Recovery Vehicle

Join Date: Feb 2007

Location: CDA, ID

Posts: 1,074

Likes: 0

Received 1 Like on 1 Post

All of the things that you have replaced would not have been caused by off roading or that the vehicle cannot take abuse. The springs sound a little weird to me why they needed to be replaced and why only replace each only on one side. The 60K service, was that done just for convenience or did it not run because it needed the service. The brakes could be your driving style, who knows.

I say go wheeling in it, you will have body damage, more service of diffs and hubs and maybe a broken part if you hammer it. Otherwise it will do you just fine. Maybe it is acting up becasue you are holding it back from what it was built for.

Reply Like