Discovery II suspention question

Greetings
I just had a question concerning a 99 Disc II. I have had the vehicle for 2 yrs + with no problems. Lately though i have noticed that whenever the car is parked, it lowers itself in the rear. At times it will do it while i am driving. was wondering if this is something to be concerned about, unfortunately there are no LR dealerships near my home. The nearest dealership is approximately 6 hrs away. Thank you in advance for any assistance, knowledge you can share
Bas

im no expert, but it sounds like your having airbag problems. i woudl recomend saving yourself a lot of time (and asprin) and swap thgem out for conventional springs. they're somewhere at www.roversnorth.com

Yep,sounds like your air bladders are leaking.This is a pretty common problem with Discoverys and the quickest and cheapest way to fix it is to remove the air ride setup and replace with coil springs.When I was shopping for my Discovery,I actually settled for a 5 pass with springs just to avoid the air bladder setup that comes on the 7 pass.(I got tipped off ahead of time by a LR Tech). From what I hear the swap is pretty simple and inexpensive.

Thank you
i will look into it, i guess now i know were that hissing sound is coming from -). hehe
I appreciate your quick response.

if it goes out while driving, parked, etc...it could also be your ECU Slabs

I had the same problem with my suspension. I wanted to maintain all of
the factory functionality so I did not want to switch to coil spring suspension.
I found a great company out of Cape Canaveral Florida that sell replacement
bags http://www.arnottindustries.com/parts_Land_Rover_Discovery_II_Series_yid48.html

And by the way...they have a lifetime warranty! I had the first of the two rear bags
replaced at the dealer at a cost of $500 cdn plus install. When the second bag started
leaking, I started looking around and found these guys. Their price with duty, tax, and
shipping to Canada was less than half! The factory bags only come with a 1 year warranty.

I hope this helps

Best Regards,
Tom

I second Tom's source in FL. They produce bellows that are superior to OEM and less $. They can be a little tricky to install. All the bellows are the same except for the D2 rear SLS bags.

out of curiosity (and while we're on the subject) han you get lifted bags?

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ORIGINAL: Bene

im no expert, but it sounds like your having airbag problems. i woudl recomend saving yourself a lot of time (and asprin) and swap thgem out for conventional springs. they're somewhere at www.roversnorth.com

does anyone know any less expensive ways to convert the rear suspension to this type of set-up?
i'll probably end up just buying replacment bags from the link Tom gave...Thanks, Tom!

are the rear bags easy to replace? does arnott industries send installation instructions or is there a how-to somewhere?

My cousin found a site that sells both the conversion kits and replacement parts for the air suspension system and has better prices than the 2 sites listed above:
http://www.strutmasters.com/land-rover/index.htm

Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) w/these guys?

yes the rear bags are very easy to replace..

1. let your bags deflate as much as possible.
2. jack truck up as high as possible
3. (your choice to take off the tire)
4. there is 2 clips that just lift off the top of the bags, screwdriver or prybar (try to keep them if the replacement bags dont come with them)
5.pull the bags down out of the holder (at this point you might want to cut the zip tie on the airline )
6. take a 10mm wrench and carefully undo the air line (dont strip this)
7. deflate bag all the way
8. turn bag 90 degress and pull off the holder
9. repeat steps to reinstall

hope this helps.. ask if you have and questions

Are these steps that you listed for a Discovery II? I just bought a new set of air springs and was going to replace them. Are there any special tools needed? Any special procedures? Do you have to jack it up really high to get them out? Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Michael
Jackson, WY

And if you go to this link, you will see some pictures

http://www.disco2.tk/

Best regards from Norway

Hans-Ole

Sorry, forgot to tell you: it is in Norwegian, but you can see out of the pictures, and it is quite easy to change them! It is under this homepage, just scroll down to the right pictures...

http://home.online.no/~ksskaret/discovery/side_2_utstyr/lift/lift.htm

Good luck!

H-O