I did this on my '85 Westy to bring up the sagging back end up to near
level with the front.  The procedure, done in 2002, is explained here:

http://www.knology.net/~vw/vanagon/sag/

...and I trimmed my reply as requested by The Administrator.

2008/12/17 Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>:
> You  get a half inch thick white Teflon cutting board from Wal-Mart,  and
> you cut that into round half inch thick  shims for your coil springs.....
> That's  one way to raise a coil spring car that's lower than you want.
> Not sure you can get all that you want this way in terms of  suspension
> travel, but it is the low tech, low dollar way to raise coil springs that
> are too low.
> You can read about it online in many places I'm sure.
> Sounds like you need more than a half inch...........just wanted to mention
> this option.
> Heck there are even thingey's that screw into the coils to make the spring
> taller, but they're pretty hokey too.  Not really recommended.
> Scott
>

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Chris S.
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