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Subject:air springs ... what exactly do they do.
From:William B
Date:Sun, 28 May 2006 23:26:05 -0400

I've always been interested in hightops for the vanagon.  The adventurewagen
is lovely, but difficult to find just a top (with bed, etc).  It also seems
to be the only hightop i can get into my garage.  It seems that things such
as the highroof joker (on my syncro) would be about 101-102 inches high.
The max height i can raise my garage door to is 98 inches.  So i'm trying to
see if it's possible to dynamically raise and lower the syncro 4 inches or
so ... which to me seems like it might as well be 12 feet.

From what i gather air-springs may be an option, though i don't quite
understand them.  Could some one fill me in.

of course, when i think about it ... i could buy a decent AW for the price
of raiseing the garge door, adding air springs, and shipping a joker top
from europe.

but then i'd have to dismantle one, and i'm only comfortable doing that to
one that's dead.

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