Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:27:52 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Saggy Westy Rear
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I've gotten rear spring 'air bags' from the airlift company before....for
about 70 bucks for the set, and they worked all right.
Their listing online doesn't quite match vanagons exactly though........
and they didn't want to hear about it.
but if you can get past that.......their 2WD vanagon rear air lift bags for
a vanagon work just fine.
There is also the tire option. One 14 inch size that's nice on the rear if
you are running 195/75 R 14's on the front .......is the 27 X 8.50 R 14 LT
.......
those raise the back end a little, don't look overly large or out of
place.......and raise the gearing a bit too, which almost never hurts on a
vanagon .
And it helps the cornering handling too........most deffenitley.
I just sold an 83 westy with 195/75 r14 LT's on the front - a summer and
rain tread design......
and 27 X 8.50 R145's on the rear .........on alloy wheels ........and that
van .........I *wish* I could get the handling balance on my personal van,
that that van had........so far havn't nailed the perfect front/rear combo
for 15 inch wheels and tires.....
but for 14's ..........the combo I'm mentioning here is really
nice.......hanlding wise - perfect 'neutral handling just short of
understeer' ........like you can really jam it cornering hard ........and
the handling feel/balance is always 'right there' .......niether oversteer,
nor typical terminal undesteer ......but 'just right.'
scott
turbovans
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Ploessl" <karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Saggy Westy Rear
as Dave pointed out: Air Lift 60789 (AirLift 1000 units)
If you follow http://www.airliftcompany.com/online_catalog.html and
look up by vehicle (Volkswagen-year 1988-vanagon) you can also find a
setup for an onboard "leveling compressor kit" (if I recall it some
people at the time of the group purchase (spring 2001) went with this
setup) and "suspension load leveling kit".
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Richard Golen <rgolen@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Karl,
>
> Do you have a stock number for the air springs? I looked them up on a site
> and got a message that they weren't available for the Vanagon.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Ric
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:02:00 -0400
>> From: karl.ploessl@GMAIL.COM
>> Subject: Re: Saggy Westy Rear
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>
>> years ago I got an "airlift 1000" (that was a group purchase here at
>> the vanagon site)
>>
>> http://www.airliftcompany.com/al1000.html
>>
>> This helped/s to adjust with the sagging
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Dave Arthur <dave.arthur@nscc.ca> wrote:
>> > What is the current feeling for sagging rears? I have an '86 Westfalia.
>> > I
>> > have noticed that my rear ride height is low on the drivers side. I
>> > have
>> > read that this is 'normal' for a Westfalia as it is always unevenly
>> > loaded
>> > (fridge, stove and cabinetry).
>> >
>> > I believe the springs are original and they appear to be in good shape.
>> > From
>> > the list I have read a few 'fixes'
>> >
>> > From high to low $$
>> >
>> > New springs
>> > AirLift air bags
>> > Plastic cutting board doughnuts
>> > Swap springs side to side
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Karl
>> 1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
>> 2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
>> Wilmington, DE
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Karl
1981 VW Westy "Jenny"
2000 VW Jetta GLS VR6
Wilmington, DE
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