Hi Tony,

I have an '85 and felt that the ride was too high in the front.  I used the
front springs from a '91 GL and kept the saggy-butt '85 springs in the
back.  It has a bit of a rake, which I don't particularly care for, but at
least the nose isn't way up any more.  I dropped the front end about 1.5
inches with the GL springs.

This picture is not truly representative because the Vanagon is sitting on
the downward slope of my driveway, but you get the idea:

http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/546163.jpg

Joe T.
Denver
'85 Wolfsburg Westy

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:22 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> So I have an 85 vanagon. It sits high, but I think that year specially it
> looks like there was some major gapish in the wheel wells.
> I know that people use the springs of the Carat vanagons to drop that gap a
> bit. Is it only springs from those Carat vanagons that would work or is it
> a
> range of vanagons from 86 on?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
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> 85 Vanagon "El Guapo"
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>