It seems like it.  The older ones look as though they have more clearance.
Better for bumping along down those old fire roads in the mountains...Hurry
up, Springtime!!

----Original Message Follows----
From: Paul Mayfield <paulmayfield@EARTHLINK.NET>
Reply-To: Paul Mayfield <paulmayfield@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon
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
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM wrote:

 > 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.

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