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Subject:Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Preferred Springs
From:Jim Felder
Date:Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:25:26 -0500

What would you recommend to replace the rear springs?

Jim

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
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> On 6/18/2012 4:22 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
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> I have a note to myself made a month or two ago from a post that Scott
> wrote. If I understand my note, he was recommending 85 GL front
> springs as a good replacement for sagging Westy springs.
>
>
> What I wrote about was..
> 85 Weekenders and Westy Campers are too high in front, by almost 2 inches.
> 85 GL good used springs fix that perfectly in my experience.
>
> One can add a spacer to raise a rear side that's low ..
> but it still sounds like a tired spring, and the right thing would be a new
> one, or a very good used one perhaps.
>
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com