Air vs Spring - BEST SUSPENSION Options for your Land Rover Defender || Mahker Weekly EP087
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In this episode:
- Dave talks suspension, going through all our favourite options for shocks, springs, air suspension & steering dampeners that we use in our own builds.
- Nicky's grafting away on the tig for both Project Christine & a trial build
- Project Pippin is flying together - a green Defender 110 TDI restoration
- Project Porsche 90 gets a new windscreen fitted after a little workshop accident...
- Louis's been keeping busy fixing up Project Christine's interior
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00:00 Let's talk Suspension: shocks, springs, air, dampening...
08:14 Custom intake for Christine
10:59 Project Pippin is taking shape
14:30 Fitting a new windscreen into the green Porsche 90
17:46 Custom Fabrication on a trial build
22:43 Christine's new gearbox tunnel
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Presented like a pro really educational and well thought out,thanks for doing this chanel Dave ,
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Great info thank you. I have a '13 Puma Utility and at the moment every rut and ridge is a rattle and judder. 90% on road so need to look at the suspension.
Another week of great content variety. You guys knock it out of the park.
Loving the welding montage clips 👍💪💪💪
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
Fox Shocks FTW!!! Got them on my Disco 2. 👍🏽
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Awesome 😎
good info as always
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much
I've recently installed Pro-comp 2.5 remote res + airbags on my chopped Patrol here in Australia. Its over 3T and now drives like a car.
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
That’s so good to hear
Nice IWC Dave.
@wearemahker
2 ай бұрын
It’s my favourite 😎
Great episode thanks for the Shock comparison, I’m running the fox shocks Alive springs and Bilstein advanced damper and it’s great. Videography on the welding with Niki is mega. Any chance of a brake comparison as well ? 🤞
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Ok… we’ll add it to the list. Thanks for watching
Great video!! One question: on the trials vehicle, are those modified P38a exhaust headers?? If so, what a great way to go to get headers on a Defender RV8.
Dave and Nicky at their best…I’d love a set of those pre-runner 2.65’s but how much are they? ❤ Mahker
The tractive suspesion you showed is that the track line or the touring line?
@wearemahker
16 күн бұрын
Answered in this weeks Q and A video for you
Hi Dave, great info on the shocks, thanks very much for that. One question please, some of the replacement shocks appear to come with the locating washers (ones with the short spiggot, some have spherical bush seat and some containment) that engage the turrets and spring seat on front axle and axle side lower on the rear. Some seem to re-use LR std washers subject to the respective new bush config or appear to have bespoke. Fox ones come without as far as I can tell and the new bushes appear too large for std LR locating washers? How do you guys address this? (I have been lead to believe that not using bush locating washers at all can cause the shock to wander and the shaft wear the hole on the vehicle side? )
What would you recommend for a 130 with a heavy camper build?
My wife says the same thing about fitting windscreens! 🤣
I have a question please. I can't find any specs on the airbags in terms of size/dimensions. I'm building my own custom air suspension system with my own specs as I'm abroad. Can you help with that?
What brand of air suspension do you use?
Don't you find upgraded steering dampers destroy the already pants design drop arm balljoint in minutes as there not man enough? I always go HD arms with lemforder balljoints and disco 1 droparm set up when a customer wants a fancy SD fitting. Air springs OK till they leak or the system fails, not good if your in the middle of nowhere.
Fox have let me down too many times with mountain bike suspension for me to trust them over Bilstein for my Defender.
How much, ball park is an LS3 plus 8L transmission?
Dave, I emailed with questions, haven’t heard back. Where do you source your vehicles? Does a client that wants one build by Mahker, need to provide you with the 110 or do you supply and build to spec? My wife is pestering me to get one but I have very specific desires. Can you help????
@wearemahker
11 ай бұрын
Sorry I’ve been very busy on builds right would you mind resending the email please thanks Dave.
@brianallmendinger9248
11 ай бұрын
Dave, re sent the email on the contact portion of your website. Cheers
Hi Dave, Do you have any plans on doing conversion kits to make Defenders ULEZ compliant buddy? Kind regards Tony
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
We sure do we offer the latest V8s that our ulez compliant.
@LRDefender1968
Жыл бұрын
@@wearemahker Eeeeeek.......I meant the standard TDCI lol
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
@@LRDefender1968 ummm I’m sure there was a Add Blue kit but it’s not something we offer yet.
@LRDefender1968
Жыл бұрын
@@wearemahker That's correct Dave, there are companies installing the system for about 6 grand, not heard good reports though :((
Cracking suspension breakdown. Who was the firm doing the windscreen?
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Arch We use telford auto window screens.
@BigArch6564
Жыл бұрын
@@wearemahker Dave, many thanks!
Do you do stuff on series 3s too?
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
If it’s made in Solihull we’ll work on it!
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Hi Dave here it’s actually in the pipe line we’re developing a shock for series 2/3 with stock and upgraded power.
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Please Dave... Damper, not Dampener (unless you're from the US) and it's never a shock absorber, the spring takes the shock, the damper damps the springs energy. There's always one..... 😂
@wearemahker
Жыл бұрын
Come and say it better with camera in your face love Dave 🤓
@Jason-cl8hk
11 ай бұрын
Yep, agree - they’re dampers. That being said, I’m keen to try an air ride suspension particularly off road.