Ok so that's my rear suspension sorted, I've finally regained the rear damper travel lost when I fitted lowering blocks, BCC anti-tramp rear leaf springs and a Bilstein rear dampers.
The spring and dampers are quality components, however, Morgan's damper orientation choice is clearly all wrong, and their hard rubber rebound pads aren't much better either. The key issue was the guy who supplied the Bilsteins really should have explained I needed to raise my top mounts when he sold me the dampers. The end result of withholding this critical information was for some time Monty has been running on his bump stops, obviously this is far from ideal and it eventually resulted in the rear hoop clean tearing itself out of its lower mounts!
With the hoop welded back up I again contacted the Morgan suspension specialist and supplier of my dampers in an attempt to understand why his Bilstiens were forcing Monty to ride on his bump stops ?????
To my surprise he responded by saying he runs the same Bilstein dampers himself, he then went on to admit he'd also ran into the exact same issue. Unbelievably and with no apology offered, he even sent me a photo of his rear upper damper mounts that he'd been forced to raise to reclaim the lost travel, if he'd only told me to do the same when he sold me the dampers a lot of hassle and expense could have been avoided
Anyway, moving on from my disappointment in others, I took ownership and turned on the problem myself. However, rather than weld in new raised upper mounts, I started by studying the natural total stroke of the dampers, I then subtracted the length of the big bump stops that came with them, this give me the Bilstein's true working stroke.
What I discovered was these Bilsteins only have a stroke of 30mm, or no stroke at all on a lowered Morgan if you don't do something about it
To fix it, my solution was simply to reduce the thickness of both the compression and rebound bump stops to regain the correct operating stroke of 30mm, and without the need to weld in raised upper damper mounts, the rest is explained in another one of my really stimulating and award winning videos
