On 11/5/2014 7:49 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
> True for the camper too. Now that I have my son's '87 Westy parked next to my '85 Westy I can see a huge difference in the front height.  Something to add to the to-do list.
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott )
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:54 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: '85 springs to a 90GL?
>
> 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.
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> 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
The springs I got were from CO and not rusty at all.  Even the rubber
pieces were in good shape.  They came off a tin top, but I have a set of
Syncro Springs too, but thought they would not be a good match....AND
they had over 200k on them and were really rusty(MN car).  The Syncro
they came off of was so rusty, I had to take the Sawzall to
it.........some pieces left , but the speedo and tranny/front diff are
long gone.

DM&FS