in my experience all 85 Weekenders have too-tall front springs .
I replace them with 85 GL front springs and they sit level then.

IMO..it's not that the rear sags..
it's that the front is almost 2 inches taller due to the front springs
being too tall.

On 11/5/2014 11:54 AM, Dan N wrote:
> since we talk about springs...
>
> I have one '85 weekender with poptop (no kitchen) and the rear sags quite
> bad...
>
> I have another '85 tintop and the rear doesn't sag at all.. btw it's quite
> high... higher than my Carat but lower than my Syncro... just in the
> middle...
>
> errr... so why's the difference? did they put different springs for the
> same '85 year?
>
> dan
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Tony Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   Cc
>> I would have even Steven swaped my 85 springs for the lower springs of
>> carats or later vanagons.
>>
>> Just putting that out there. Maybe the
>>
>> Sent from my iPod
>>
>> On Nov 5, 2014, at 2:37 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:18 PM 11/5/2014, Nij.tp.vanaru wrote:
>>>> ebay seemed like the logical thing to do.  Are there any additional
>>>> suspension/alignment changes that need to take place when I add
>>>> these springs??  I'm also going ot swap the PS rack for a manual
>>>> duringthe same procedure and replace the upper ball joints, so an
>>>> alignment is pretty much a given. TIA DM&FS
>>> If you do take out the PS -- the difference in low-speed steering
>>> effort between 205- and 185- tires is tremendous.  I found parallel
>>> parking quite a struggle with the 205s.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>> David