Does anyone have any experiance of this?
I am converting my 300TDI to more of an offroad vehicle, but I still use it a lot on-road, and I was thinking of removing the anti-roll bars to get more articulation.
Thanks Robert
well as most of the suspension mod/lift kits seem to require this as a pre-req I cant see much of an issue with it.
Providing your springs and shox are in good nick then it wont make much odds - after all my 1990 disco hasn't got an anti-roll bar at all - not even the mountings!
Si
It'll turn into an absolute pig on road. Just unhook it when you're going off road, or fit up an electric disconnector like a lot of the jap
4WDs have.On or around Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:49:43 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:
I was thinking about that at some point - wondered about making a simple mechanical de-linker for 'em. Electric is nice, but it's under the vehicle in all the crud and you can bet that it won't work when you want it to. something mechanical, preferably in stainless, would be nice.
But, as GrnOval says, early Disco's were not fitted with them at all, and they seem to drive Ok, and I cannot see that much else has changed in the suspension setup. So, surely it cannot make all that much difference. Anyway, with massively wide 33in wheels, its not like my ride is all that comfortable anyway, lol.
Robert
I removed then from my RRC, handled perfectly well on the road, just leaned a bit more in the corners.
It is an MOT fail however.
On or around Fri, 3 Aug 2007 23:45:19 +0100, "SimonJ" enlightened us thusly:
MOT fail if you remove the mountings an' all? did all RRCs have 'em?
I know they're optional on 110s, and discos seem to have them either on the front or the back or both. I'd have thought that there's enough wiggle-room in that to say "sorry guvnor, AFAIK it never had 'em"
RRC only had them from about 1994.
What would be the grounds for failure?
Not at all!
Many Discoverys and Defenders have the mounts but no anti-roll bars.
discos onl;y had them from 1994 (300TDi).
It is a failure if the vehicle is meant to have them fitted, and you have removed them.
Had this discussion with a new MOT tester who also had the ministry in at the same time the disco was being tested and he failed it on no anti roll bar, as he had a 300 with them on. My 200 is the last of the bunch, so has the mounts on the chassis, but not the axle. Quick discussion with the minstry man soon corrected the fail as no body could find where the roll bar mounted to the axle!!
-- "For those who are missing Blair - aim more carefully."
To reply direct rot13 me
bURRt the 101 Camper
The mounts on the axle are bolt on, even if you removed the mounts completely from the axle, if the vehicle left the factory with anti roll bars, then they need to be present when MOT'd.
My 1989 had them
MOT section 2.4, suspension, general
Paragraph G, suspension arms and Linkages, Sub-Frames Etc.
g., anti roll bars and linkages,
Reason For Failure :- An anti roll bar not fitted to an axle on which it is standard.
On or around Mon, 6 Aug 2007 02:02:55 +0100, "SimonJ" enlightened us thusly:
but if the ARB was optional fitment, it's not standard...
On or around Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:54:23 +0100, "SimonJ" enlightened us thusly:
but how do they tell? If you unbolt the mount from the axle, it looks like one to which no bar was fitted.
I daresay there's a cut-off date beyond which they were standard.
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