Date:         Mon, 31 Dec 2001 17:53:53 -0800
Reply-To:     developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Lowering a Vanagon
Comments: To: Mike Moery <mike.moery@ACSALASKA.NET>
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What I would like to see is a Vanagon up higher like those monster trucks.
Then they will go through mud bogs and snow and such. Wouldn't that be a
sight! Then it would really be truly American. The syncro isn't nearly high
enough. Has anyone actually done this? Seems like someone should and then
enter it in a monster truck show.

W.P.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Moery" <mike.moery@ACSALASKA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon


I think the later models seem to sit lower because of their plastic
bumper covers, side cladding, and air dams.  I doubt if they are
actually any lower.

-Mike Moery
     Anchorage, AK
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 'Ol Bessie  '82TD Westy


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of joseph Trussell
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 11:23 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon

It seems like it.  The older ones look as though they have more
clearance.
Better for bumping along down those old fire roads in the
mountains...Hurry
up, Springtime!!


----Original Message Follows----
From: Paul Mayfield <paulmayfield@EARTHLINK.NET>
Reply-To: Paul Mayfield <paulmayfield@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:17:04 +0000

Didn't the later years ('88> ) sit lower than the earlier?

I have an '87 Westy and it definately sits a couple of inches higher
than the later models of Weekender and Westy.

Any source for these springs? Seems like the way to go
to maintain ride quality and factory suspension travel.

Paul
'87 Westy


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on 12/31/01 4:34 PM, Automatic digest processor at
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM wrote:

 > Date:    Mon, 31 Dec 2001 04:03:04 -0500
 > From:    Gary Stearns <gstearns@OPTONLINE.NET>
 > Subject: Re: Lowering a Vanagon
 >
 > 3-4 inches?  If you simply lowered the springs, there would be no
suspension
 > travel left at all.  You'd be riding on bump stops (you and all of
the
kids
 > with their slammed Japanese cars!).  The only way to get this kind of
 > lowering would be to completely remanufacture the suspension changing
the
 > position of the axles while maintaining suspension travel. Maybe
there is
a
 > kit to do this, but I've never seen one.


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