The '85 Westies definately sit higher. Significantly higher, in fact. I lowered mine by about one inch by installing '86 Westy springs.

Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:   That's kinda news to me.
Some 85's sure sit higher in the front, like weekenders, but of hundreds of
85 GL's I've never noticed they are any higher than any other 2WD vanagon,
except late Carats of course....but near as I can tell, unless you are
talking a quarter inch or something small like that, samo samo.
s.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
neil N
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:43 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: '84 value?

I tell yah. Without this list I highly doubt I would have ever known all
these details. (of which I'm appreciative)
Pretty cool.....

Neil.

On Nov 28, 2007 6:13 AM, Paul Guzyk
wrote:

> Another nice feature of 85's is they have a higher suspension
> (springs). This was the highest suspension height for 2WD Vanagons
> AFAIK.
>
> Nice to have if you do light off-roading and want a little extra
> clearance....
>

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