I think he meant just swapping the rear springs side-to-side. Once you undo
one of the shock absorber bolts, the trailing arm drops low enough to
release the spring on 2WD Vanagons. Fronts *would* be a lot of work!

TomC
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85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart MacMillan [SMTP:stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:48 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: Cant we just swop sides? RE: westy lists to port
>
> No reason not to do this, it is just a lot of work.  And while you are
> in there dismantling everything you might as well do the bushings, ball
> joints, etc., etc., so it actually ends up to be an expensive solution!
> --
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