Thursday, September 23, 2015

Hello everyone. I have not updated this blog for some time but I still have the T4 Syncro and I now also have a T4 Syncro DOKA that I'm doing another conversion on. I have imported all the posts from this blog into a new blog located here and I plan to update this regularly and also add the backlog of posts for the past few years. I will keep this blog live for prosperity.

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Suspension lift

Most VW T4 Transporter owners lower there Vans, since mine is a Syncro I've decided to lift the suspension on mine as I might occasionaly head offroad on camping expeditions. Also on one of my springs the pigtail has broken off so since my MOT is due soon I thought I'd get it out of the way.

Rather than buy the excellent Seikel kit which I can't afford or justify I purchased a set of King Spring's which are Australian made uprated springs for the T4. These allow the full load of upto 1200kg in the van and also have the effect of lifting the suspension and are very heavily made.

Before I could fit the springs I had to fit some aluminium spacers to lower my diff so the cv joints aren't at an acute angle when the suspension is lifted. This also made it easier to fit the springs as the suspension arm can drop lower.

This is the position of the sliding door in comparison to the wheel before the springs were fitted:

Now look at the position of the sliding door in comparison to the wheel after fitting the springs. I measured the suspension and it had gone up by around 50mm. With the combination of my larger tyres and raised suspension I now have around 80mm extra ground clearance at the back compared to a standard T4.

Since it was dark I decided to leave winding up the torsion bars for another day. I took the van for a quick test drive and the springs are definately alot firmer, they should be a bit less firm once they bed in properly.

2 Comments:

Blogger Johan said...

Clive

Please quote the part nr of the King springs used.

4:07 PM  
Blogger Kike said...

Hello

I'm Kike from Spain. I am preparing a T4 Syncro spring king with the docks and I have a problem.

I need to ask a few things about King Spring

Can you give me your email address?

furgokike@gmail.com

You can see my forum

www.furgovw.org

Syncro Seccion-->

http://www.furgovw.org/index.php?topic=132638.0

thanks

10:36 PM  

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