In a message dated 26/01/2007 7:38:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

Thanks  for another photo trip through your garage Frank.
Oh, and all the hard work  you put into your ride.... Nice looking work!
Gosh, I could eat-off your  suspension parts. You been looking a Ben's
work way-too much....
The  parts-list alone is to choke-on. Geeze major $$ for parts alone
(and  wholesale).

The weather out here in la-la land... the "illiterate"  West-Coast is
finally
drying out a bit. I will put-on my chest-wadders  and slosh out to my
Van and
measure my wheel heights for your  list.

As a suggestion. Perhaps measure from the centre of the wheel's  "hub"
to the Lower
edge of the Wheel-Well. This will give all of us,  weather running 14",
15", 16" or 17"
wheels a measurement that has some  level of continuity.... we can see
how each of our
Vans are either  squatting/sagging or standing-tall independent of
tire/wheel size.
The  ground to bottom of Wheel-Well measurement is still a useful  figure
though.....
Geee shorty, my Van is taller than yours...Is not...  is so, is not....
so there!

Again, thanks for a look at your fine  work.... now go hug Rita..... 8-)

Phil, thanks for the good words !  I agree  with you about the ride height
measurement.  Very good point.  Why  didn't I think of that ?  Anyways, thanks,
and I will change the  plan.  I will take the measurement as you suggest of my
Westy and modify my  _Vanagon Ride Height  Survey_
(http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/survey2.htm)  webpage today !

    And, I did hug Rita !

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
'87 Westy, '90 Carat, '87 Wolfsburg  (Forsale) & Lionel Trains (_Collection
for  sale_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/trainsal.htm) )
Vanagon/Vanagon Westfalia Service in the Ottawa Valley
_Frank Condelli &  Associates_ (http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/busindex.html)
_Vanagon  Stainless Steel Exhaust Systems_
(http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/stebro.htm)
_BusFusion_ (http://members.aol.com/BusFusion/bfhome.htm)  a VW Camper
camping event, Almonte, ON, June 07 ~ 10,  2007