gwyn lewis

The reason i have done this kit is because customers keep asking for them, yes they are more for heavy veacules to stop the bounce and boddy roll,but still wanting the articulation, the X-Eng antiroll bar system is one way forward to stop body roll, but wont stop the bouncing around, yes you could fit 1 big shock with firmer damping, but the trouble with this is the bushes distroy themselves as the bush is flexing much more, for high speed comping i thinck a diferent setup is required on the back, the trouble with the Land Rover setup is as the axle is pushed up the less damping you have because the shock is at an angle and gets more horizontal giving less damping, this is ideal for slow challenge events as it allows the axle to go up easier and quicker, for high speed you need the damper upright giving the same damping all the time, thats why you see a lot puting the front shock setup on the back, for high speed you dont want to much drop on the suspension as it could allow your wheel to drop into a large hole, you need more compression for when you land hard. I am taking all your coments in and maybe see you at the show so you can see for yourselves. Must get back to loading up for the show. Gwyn

I thought i had better post this incase no one had heard the bad news, a customer told me today and i have just checked on line and this is what i could find, our thaughts are with his family and friends and many 4x4 friends he had. Breese. - Thomas (Tommy) Cwmderw, Bwlchysarnau, Rhayader passed away on Friday 4th March 2011 aged 69 years. Dearly loved husband of Elizabeth. Funeral Service at Bwlchysarnau Baptist Church on Saturday 19th March at 1pm followed by interment at Bwlchysarnau Cemetery. Family flowers, donations if desired to Wales Air Ambulance or Bwlchysarnau Baptist Church. Enquiries to M.Jones & Son, Funeral Directors, Llanidloes. Gwyn Lewis

The best way to measere your lift is to measure your spring hights with the vehicle parked on level ground,measure from top to botom of the rear of the front spring,and the same for the rear spring,with quality springs you will find that the drivers side is always slightly taller STD 90/110 FRONT SPRING measures 260mm +/- 5 mm The REAR SPRING should be around 300 mm +/- 10mm STD Disco/RRc FRONT SPRING measures 250 mm +/- 5 mm The REAR SPRING should be around 300 mm +/- 10mm These measurments are what i have taken over the years to calculate what lift you have got or havent got From the standard measurments you can calculate what lift you have got Hope this will help what you need GWYN LEWIS

Hi all that are concerned i did notice this this morning,as i could not get on my site either,i have contacted my web man but all was OK on his PC,and is fine on mine as well now. We dont know what the problem is,but if anyone is having trouble please can you let me know as i need to sort it out,it seems fine on mine now ? As for emails i know some dont come through and i dont know why,i know it might seem rude for me not to reply,but if i havent seen them i cant reply to them I had an email a couple of months ago and i replied to it,the ancwer i got back was sorry mate i sent you thet 6 months ago and you did not reply so i got the items elswhere Please let me know if you are having trouble with my site GWYN

Pro Comp pin lower / eye top we should have in stock , get the measurments you need and give me a ring and i will see what i can sort out for you tel 01938 810 298 gwyn

He could not get any air out , as they are foam filled That must have been when we stoped for our lunch Gwyn

It was an excellant event (so glad we entred ) Thanks to Neil and Carol and all the others that never get mentioned, that give up there time for us all to go out and play and put an excellent event together , we must remember that without all the marshalls and helpers there would not be an event to go to Thanks to the David`s for cooking the pig (my plan worked you all eat to much and could not move fast enough on Sunday ) Shame about the weather but we are nearer the clouds up here and cant do nothing about it Nick , how many cans of strongbow did SI have to drink before you had enough alloy shims I must look at the results now , i cant remember where JOHN and ROB finished Thanks once again Gwyn Lewis

Totalwinch (if it is the same thing) was a company selling winches about 5 or 6 ears ago , they are the same winch as the Come-up as he was only re naming them , he dissapeared over night and never seen again ? The winches came from winch solutions in hull as they still sell them DV-9000 and so on , but most see the winches now as superwinch EP 9 and others , as superwinch import them with there name on them They are a very good winch for the price Gwyn Lewis

It Sound like you have to much grease on the outside of the Ring Gear, and in the end housing no 18 and no 1 on a parts diagram if you can see one , this causes to much resistance and makes it hard to pull out, as this must spin frely when in free spool , this is comon on a lot of lowline winches after they have been serviced, as to much grease is put on the outside of the Ring Gear , use a light oil on the outside of the Ring Gear it should help Gwyn Lewis

John I think Nobby just wanted to know if you seen a difference from XPs to Bows as you bave used both. They cant be that bad as you have had a 2nd and 3rd place using them,or is it super fit Rob that does it for you I took my motors off last weekend to clean and check, i could not beleave the moisture in them, and only done 2 events, whatever motor you all use they must be serviced quite often, i thinck a breather in the motors is the next thing to sort out ? Gwyn Lewis

That was a good event Thanks to Neil / Carol and all that put it together, you made full use of all the Welsh hill side again (it might become compulsory to have a incline metre in the cab for some of the slopes) . I am very pleased with 3rd in class as it is our first Howlin Wolf in my own truck . But i cant beleave we let John and Rob beat us, its the last time i give them any help and advice or was it those new doors that helped them (that was nothing to do with me). But i must say it was a good day for all the WEISH teams 2 firsts , 1 third and 1/2 a second place Thanks to all involved and will see you all at round 4 GWYN LEWIS

John Fair 3rd !!!!!! I think you have been watching TV , You have been watching that David Bowyer Off-Road Driving and Winching Techniques DVD i sent you , or was it those highly tuned Bowmotors i did for you that pulled you along to 3rd im shure i wont hear the last of this one 3rd !!!!!!! GWYN LEWIS

Well i thought i had beter put my point forward, i have had a lot to do and haven't had time to reply It all started at Billing last year as Allmakes had a stand by Jimbo`s GIGGLEPIN (so it is all his fault) as my Land Rover was on his stand,Eddie took an interest in my suspension kit and we got talking , he wanted to get a shock produced Terrafirma to go with my kit and i agreed as as it would give me another shock to sell one that would be cheaper than the OME and dearer than the others i do , and i hoped the quality would be somewhere inbetween as well, i got 4 shocks to test for them before xmas and i was impressed with them for the price, we discussed buying my products for Allmakes to sell to all their shops, but it turned out that that all they wanted was the rear shock mount off me, as they do all the other items themselves , what put me off selling to them was i would be only selling rear shock mounts that would be sold to around 100 or 200 shops they supply, and my sale of other items would be nill because once all 4x4 shops start selling the items it would start another price war and the only one to benefit would be the end user, but you also need to be able to give some technical advice on fitting and things that go with the kit, that is where i am always willing to help anyone and advise them on what they are doing to there vehicle , this is what happend on friday as Nobby said i was not amused when i found out it was not my items he had brought, it was not his fault as he was new to the game , but the shop must have mentioned my name or sold them as mine for him to call me As for the items Terrafirma do , i knew that they did not do a rear spring re locator that was sutable for that much travel and i thought they would have modified the dislocater that they do , but they have had made an almost identical copy of mine wich has taken me years to perfect and a couple of hours to copy, the idea i came up with about 10 years ago took a lot of trial and error to get to this stage , and as Simon x-eng keeps telling me he wishes he had thought of it first, i also see things that other companies have developed and wish i had thought of it , it is simple once you have seen something new but it takes a lot of time to get things right before you can sell it (this is something that WILL once put on this forum when someone was complaining that something of mine was expensive and he said you are paying for all the design work as well as the product, and that has always stuck in my mind) maybe i should have tried to push more of my items onto them , but where ever you get your items from you need to be advised properly on what you are fitting, as there is more to suspension than people think, i probably don't always get it right but i am always willing to advise them on what is being fitted even if it is not mine , this is where you don't get this sort of help off big retailers or internet shops as they dont seem to have the time ? Hope this has answered some things for you all , and thanks for all your support on this one I can get back to designing new items now and try to keep in front GWYN LEWIS

you fit them with the shorter part of the propshaft at the transfer box end,as this is the tallest part of the prop and wont let any water in them, the ends are plug welded on ours to help stop the water getting in and it also allows the grease to go down the splines and not out of the cap when you grease them GWYN LEWIS

A Defender 200 tdi front prop is NOT the same as a Disco 200 or 300 tdi it is to long a Defender 300 tdi is the same length as Disco / RRC fronts Defender 200 front W/L 685 mm FRC8390 Disco / RRC 200/300 tdi W/L 637 mm FRC8386 with LT230 Tran Box Defender 300 tdi / TD5 " " GWYN LEWIS