Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 13:56:37 -0600
Reply-To: "Jim. Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Jim. Felder" <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Westy Lean
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I'm not suggesting that the poly bushings did the trick, but replacing
seized up rubber and steel bushings did. The passenger side rear trailing
arm, for instance, had to be sawed out in section as the bolt could not be
driven out. The new setup allows the arm to swing freely and to sit level.
Jim
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 9:42 AM Douglas Toomey <drt@uoregon.edu> wrote:
> That is really interesting. Once I replaced the rubber with poly the
> overall ride and stance felt better.
>
> On Feb 10, 2021, at 7:13 AM, Jim. Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My 1983 Westy came to me with a lean and over almost 300K miles of
> ownership the lean got worse. I resorted to new gowesty springs. No
> improvement, really. Then I sawed up cutting boards for spring shims. No
> marked improvement there, either. The solution came by accident when I went
> through and replaced all the rubber in the suspension (with poly bushings).
> That freed things up to the point where the van could sit like the
> engineers designed it, not how the rubber and steel bushings had seized up
> over 35+ years.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 11:50 AM Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My experiences with sagging, leaning vanagon are this..
>
> Back then in 1990 I bought a 1985 Weekender (poptop, no kitchen, rear
> driver side closet)... the whole family was excited... imagine a 5 years
> old vanagon ! ! !
> Anyway, it leans on the driver side a bit and the whole rear sags about 1"
> difference from the front. Yes the front rides higher with an empty van and
> no one in it. So my mechanic shimmed the rear... with thicker shim on the
> driver side (or he doubled the shims?). He uses cut plastic kitchen board
> to shims... now... how thick? I don't remember because it was long
> ago...but he tried a couple times to his liking... I was very happy after
> till the day I sell the van... which I regret bitterly later on.... :-)
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 9:23 AM OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> David
>
> My preference is to move the House Battery to Pass’ Side Under
> Rear Seat
>
> & for Those Who Need Propane, move the Tank to the Pass’ Side or Delete
>
> It
>
> &
>
> go with Portable ~
>
> Moving tha Spare to the Pass’ Side would help but might get in
> Your Rear
>
> Vision if it mounts high ~ Why did You opt to put the spare on the rear ~
>
> Might also check to see how much worse the Lean is with Full H2O
> Tank ~
>
> ORR ~ Dean
>
>
>
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