VANAGON archives -- February 2009, week 1 (#24)

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:41:20 -0800 Reply-To: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: Tall springs? Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> In-Reply-To: <C2D6F8BC-13B7-4A0A-9070-D450B8F8F8D4@eoni.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote: > So the conventional wisdom says that '85 springs give the tallest ride > height. Is there a difference between GL springs and Westy springs? > IOW, are Westy springs taller than GL springs? > > TIA, > > Jim >

Jim.

If you want, I could measure spring height of my currently removed '81 Westy driver side front spring and spare spring from an '85 "Transporter" model Vanagon.

Let me know if that would help.

Neil.

-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta "Jaco http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines http://web.mac.com/tubaneil http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/

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