Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - Knackered AVOs

With the dreadful cheesium bubblegum bushed rear AVOs replaced with a nice set of Bilsteins some time ago, the front AVO coil overs on Monty's Mulfab front wishbone conversion have been on my hit list for some time now.

Excuse my colorful language, but hopefully this helps explain why I'm not a fan of AVOs.

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Monty's very dead AVOs had only done 10,000 miles before the bushes failed, and just another 5,000 miles to start leaking.

Let's try a nice new pair of custom built adjustable twin tube 400's from Protech

Tim at Protech was very helpful today, I'd arranged to drive down to their facility and remove the AVOs so they could be comprehensively measured and then tested on their sophisticated suspension dyno, a friend and I had the old leakers off the car in 15 minutes, we then handed them to Tim before heading off for lunch at a nice local pub.

While we were out stuffing our faces Tim and his team measured the old AVO spring and damper rates specified by Peter Mulberry when he created the Mulfab front wishbone conversion, and built a brand new matching set of their twin tube adjustable 400s. I went with bonded rubber bushes rather than rose joints, I also specified a full black anodised finish for additional corrosion protection, finally my preferred ride height was also replicated before we fitted Monty's new custom set of Protech coil overs.

Including driving down to Protech and back home, the whole exercise was completed in a day, Tim couldn’t have been more helpful and that drive home proved Monty's front end is greatly improved. The Protechs have 14 clicks of adjustment, we started at six clicks from zero, then tried eight clicks, unlike the Gaz Gold Pros on my TVR you can really feel the difference of each click.

It's only day one, but as you might expect given the state of Monty's old AVOs, the difference is night and day! Only time will tell, but Protech have a good reputation and do seem to stand by their products with excellent after sales service. l'll I report back here on how they perform (and last) on Monty the Morgan who is driven enthusiastically on both road and track, and in all seasons.

I absolutely love this. If ever a Morgan was summed up in one phrase, this is it.

And, of course, the perfect state of imperfection will vary with the owner - just as it should.