You don’t buy a Land Rover for ride comfort – as a utility 4x4 designed to shoulder half a ton of cargo for many thousands of miles across rugged terrain, durability and capacity take precedence over suppleness, and even the later generations with coil springs allround can have a harsh and fidgety ride by comparison to a fairly sporty saloon car. The Series models, with axles hung by four semi-elliptic leaf springs (technology that was little evolved from that found on a stagecoach or farm cart) are certainly not winners in the ride department.
But that doesn’t mean things can’t be improved, and it certainly doesn’t mean you have to accept even a fairly crude suspension system in poor condition. Which the one on our Series IIA Safari Station Wagon certainly was. It takes a lot –
