Soon, I will be replacing all five tires. How do I know when to replace the shocks?
Which shocks do you think are the best for a D2 SE 2004?
As I was doing some research, I found these, but I'm not really familiar with the brand...
do you think they are good?

http://www.roverparts.com/Parts/9526.cfm

Stephen

 

Bilstein's are some of the best in the business so you will pay top dollar. I run Bilstein 5100's on my lifted Land Cruiser and they are smooth as butter. They run a buy 3 get 1 free deal once a year and that was the deciding factor for me.

For your Disco, you may want to look at OME as that seems to be the most popular choice. But it all depends on what you are going to use your truck for....if you want the smoothest on-road ride, Bilstein's are probably a good fit. If you are adding heavy accessories and plan on doing some serious off-roading, some HD OME's will probably suit you better.

Worn out shocks will tend to be extra bouncy and noisy...

 

Yes.
The torque is added when you move the center line of the tire (adding to the leverage arm) outward from the center line of the hub.
If you take a stock wheel and add spacers, it will increase the torque on the bearings. But I wasn't talking stock wheels with spacers vs just stock wheels.

 

Man, this I why I love Landy's, the people who drive them are awesome! Great torque answer, so here's a follow on. What is the reccomendation for wheels in lieu of spacers. I'll be needing a more substantial tire and was thinking the same thing.

 

Leave well enough alone unless you are having serious tire fitment issues. Drive it for 6 months and if for some reason you think you have an issue then get back to us.
Have you rebuilt or replaced the front drive shaft yet, this is a important issue for all D2's. If you don't have 1 grease fitting on each of the 3 front u-joints, you stand the possibility of having a failure and loosing the tranny in the process.

 

Tom,

So sounds like you are saying the center line of the tire determines the distance value be used to calculate the torque while the point was made earlier that the torque is based on the location of the base of the lug nuts, if I am understanding this.

So is the measure of that torque increase determined by the horizontal line where the the wheels bolt on or horizontal center line of the tire?

If where the wheel bolts on, the spacers would seem to add more torque while wheels with less backspacing would not cause more torque because the base of the wheel studs has not moved.

If the horizontal center line of the tire is the point in question, it sounds like spacers and wheels with less backspacing COULD produce the same or similar horizontal center line on the tire, depending on the tire, and the same additional torque using either method to move the tires outward.

Am I not understanding this or is there not a difference in the two theories expressed?