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Subject:Re: Lowering a Vanagon
From:Paul Mayfield
Date:Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:17:04 +0000

Didn't the later years ('88> ) sit lower than the earlier?

I have an '87 Westy and it definately sits a couple of inches higher
than the later models of Weekender and Westy.

Any source for these springs? Seems like the way to go
to maintain ride quality and factory suspension travel.

Paul
'87 Westy

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on 12/31/01 4:34 PM, Automatic digest processor at
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> Date:    Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:03:04 -0500
> From:    Gary Stearns <gstearns@OPTONLINE.NET>
> Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon
>
> 3-4 inches?  If you simply lowered the springs, there would be no suspension
> travel left at all.  You'd be riding on bump stops (you and all of the kids
> with their slammed Japanese cars!).  The only way to get this kind of
> lowering would be to completely remanufacture the suspension changing the
> position of the axles while maintaining suspension travel. Maybe there is a
> kit to do this, but I've never seen one.