[tcb] Re: dropping the back (not a triple post sorry)
- From: Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:50:18 -0600
here it is in all it's glory, the rear end hasn't settled yet and i still need
to put the motor in it which will bring it down more:
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n256/i_am_cool_fred/DSC01907.jpg
From: i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: [tcb] Re:
dropping the backDate: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:38:54 -0600
IT'S OK!!! i was wrong, i only did 2 i will post pictures later on tonight
suspension...CHECK!!!!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:43:50 -0800From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
[tcb] Re: dropping the backTo: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: I've played with these
things many times for both lowering and raising. When I did my panel van it
had been lowered by rotating the outer spline apparently 1 notch. I raised it
back up to stock height by moving it one spline and it brought it up about 3".
My Baja is raised 1 outer spline and you know how high it is. Used to decamber
the rear of bugs for handling, not looks, and would usually just go down 1
outer spline which would lower them about 2" and make the rear axles just about
perfectly horizontal. Note that most of my experience on raising and lowering
has been with swing axles except for the baja which is IRS. Have never done it
on a bay window bus. The only way you are going to know for sure is to put the
engine in it and roll the bus around and see how low you have it. If too much
or too little you will have to crawl under there and readjust. It ain't fun to
do one of these. Sometimes it's easy (it took me about an hour per side to do
the panel van) and sometimes it's hard (it took 3 days of gut wrenching work to
do the baja. Friend of mine had a local shop do a KG and they charged him
something like $450. I tried to get the guys at Oakhill Auto to quote me a
figure on what they would charge to do one and they wouldn't quote a figure.
Said it varied so much on what they ran into that they would only do it for
shop rate for however long it took.
40 outers 44 inners...and then it gives degrees of drop but no where does it
give inches on outers or inners, it says all this garbldy goop about 8 degrees
and 30 min. and 10 degrees and 8 min. or some nonsense like that but never does
it say it in inches or meters or anything.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:20:09 -0800From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
[tcb] Re: dropping the backTo: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx would have to go look in the
book to see how much different there is between inner and outer. They are
different, but not that much and 3 splines is a lot. You are not going to be
able to tell till you get the engine in and roll the bus till the suspension
settles.Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
it was 3 inners though...i have to match the front which, now the top is about
chin high on me.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:13:47 -0800From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
[tcb] Re: dropping the backTo: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx should lower the bus a
BUNCH! Maybe too much if you really went down 3 splines.Brian Denning
<i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i got the left side done yesterday on the bus...i have a question though, the
outersplines were all gobbled up and i couldn't get them to align so i marked
and measured the torsion bar and i pulled it out got the spring plate on and
then i put the torsion bar back on turning the inner splines 3 clicks instead
of the outers two...how much should that lower the bus? it only went down an
inch and a half but i don't have a motor in it and it hasn't rolled back and
forth or anything allowing the suspension to "settle" as chad says. how much
more do you think it will drop after it settles? it looks awesome and would be
even more awesome if it would come down like an inch or so (which it should
with the motor in it.how much will settling allow it to come down?i'm doing the
right tonight and hopefully stabbing the motor this weekendit's almost ready
for the road again, just have to measure and get some smaller than stock shocks
for the front
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