Talk Morgan Forums Morgan Sports Cars Classic Morgans (pre-CX) Rear shocks with spring?

I mean I have seen some who have inserted rear shocks with its own spring. (For example, to get higher ground clearance) Does anyone know of such a product?

There are lots of tuning cocmpanies selling coil over suspension kits such as this one

However having looked at my piccies of the Trad chassis I cant see how it would raise rear wheel travel that much. And you would of course need to specify spring and damper rates which are probably best got from someone who has already done the changeover.

There is only 1 commercially available system for trad Morgans and that is the Suspension Supplies (ex Suplex) 5L rear . This comes as a complete kit with all the parts you need to convert the rear suspension from leaf springs with forward facing dampers , to coil-over-dampers, it has all the links.

http://www.suspensionsupplies.co.uk/products/4593177137


Peter (Gambalunga on here) runs with this system and is very pleased with it, another Peter uses it in Ireland (and I think Irish roads are probably as bad as Norwegian roads in the summer) and is also very happy. Look for old postings under the heading Suplex 5L

This is not a cheap job, but everything is engineered to fit and could be done by a very competent home mechanic with good facilities.

The somewhat similar system the factory uses on its race cars and the ARP4 is not available as a retro fit kit, and there is a decrease in ground clearance due to parts protruding below the bottom chassis rail.

Andy -- it's Robbie actually, but I am very happy with the 5L rear suspension. Cuts out all bad surface small to medium bumps but you do, naturally, feel the big ones. Makes secondary Irish roads a pleasure!!!

+1 in Germany

Fully recommended!!!!!!!

Special thanks got to P.J.Ballard

.....and there's me thinking the "ride quality" was part of the the appeal

+2

We have the slightly higher rated rear springs because we often carry a lot of luggage. Even with this setup it our Morgan has a more comfortable ride on all but the biggest bumps than 's new Polo.

Ride height front and back is adjustable. The front depends on spacers and the back on the adjustable spring pre-load.

Last year on my Plus8 I replaced the Koni shocks with Rutherford AVOs from Tim Ayers. A good improvement.
No height adjustments.
One rear Koni was shot so I decided to change all 4. Fronts now set to 7 clicks after trial end error. Rears on softest but some adjustments to be tried.
The Konis are good dampers but need removal to adjust on a bench. They are susceptible to large bumps breaking the adjusters internally hence losing adjustment ability.